LARSEN-D@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (YUCKO Broccoli) (07/20/89)
I have a disk full of IFF images that turned up with a bunch of read errors. After a session with disksalv, I now have lots of corrupt iff files. I could use parts of these images if I could load them. Has anyone ever heard of a utility that will let me salvage corrupt IFF files? If so would you please post to .binaries? LARSEN-D@OSU-20.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU
ecarroll@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll) (07/25/89)
In article <12511294930015@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, LARSEN-D@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (YUCKO Broccoli) writes: > I have a disk full of IFF images that turned up with a bunch of read errors. > After a session with disksalv, I now have lots of corrupt iff files. I could > use parts of these images if I could load them. Has anyone ever heard of a > utility that will let me salvage corrupt IFF files? If so would you please > post to .binaries? > > LARSEN-D@OSU-20.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU About two weeks ago, I was doing something with NewTek's Demo Reel #1, and I came across two picture files that I had never seen in the demo before. They were corrupted, but I was able to display them using SHOWIFF, a little display utility that comes with the iff.library posted to .binaries a while ago. This was the iff.library from Switzerland I think, not Leo Schwab's and Stuart Ferguson's iff.library. Anyway, I simply used SHOWIFF to display the files (corrupted bits and all), and used a screen grabber to save them back out as new IFF files. Then I removed the rubbish with Dpaint (for the hi-res picture) and Photon Paint (for the HAM picture). Only the top and bottom few lines had been corrupted, so they still looked quite acceptable. I've no idea how well SHOWIFF can handle generally corrupted files, but it certainly worked in this case for me, after all the other programs I had had rejected them. -- Eddy Carroll ----* Genuine MUD Wizard | "You haven't lived until INTER: ecarroll@cs.tcd.ie | you've died in MUD!" UUCP: {..uunet}!mcvax!ukc!cs.tcd.ie!csvax1!ecarroll | -- Richard Bartle
shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) (08/01/89)
+-- ecarroll@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll) writes: | [ ... ] the iff.library posted to .binaries a while ago. This | was the iff.library from Switzerland I think, not Leo Schwab's and Stuart | Ferguson's iff.library. That's iffparse.library. A more general facility that might be packaged under the name "iff.library" is still on the drawing board. -- Stuart Ferguson (shf@well.UUCP) Action by HAVOC