jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Jamie Zawinski) (12/19/89)
Well, my totally losing hard drive has crapped out again, and refuses to
auto-validate itself. So it looks like it's reformat-time here... But
first I need to recover this unreadable file that I foolishly haven't
backed up for two weeks...
The file is listed in its directory, and seems to have the right size, but
nothing can open it or rename it. Using SectoRama (I don't know what
version - says (c)1987) I am able to walk through each block the file
occupies and write those to a file on another disk. But! It seems to
not write the first six words or so of each block! This might make some
sense for file-header blocks, but for data blocks, it means I lose 24
characters out of every 512.
I could write down and insert those missing chars by hand, but the file is
about 38k long. Am I misusing SectoRama, or am I shafted? (The file is
the source code of a nifty Director animation, and if you ever want to see
it, help me! :-))
-- Jamie (jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu)
PS: Please respond by mail, since I don't read this group very regularly -
too much bandwidth for me. I highly favor splitting comp.sys.amiga
into as many sub-groups as possible.