kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal) (07/08/90)
There's probably a newsgroup that deals more directly with the ARC
utility, but I notice that many folks in this group use it, so I'll
start here...
I have a bunch of .arc files, comprising all my Usenet mail for the
past three years, that I recently created from raw 'mbox'-format
files. The very next day, I ran arc -v on them, and 5 out of 7 of
them were corrupt! The messages indicated one or more bad headers.
In most cases, there were two bad headers; the message for the first
was legible, but the message for the second was itself garbled.
Apparently by that point it was so confused that it looked no farther.
When I tried to extract the files from them (-x), the resulting mail
files were quite short compared to their original lengths.
The worst of it is that nearly all the mail that I've exchanged with
various of you since I joined this (atari.st) newsgroup in March is gone.
Does anyone know of a utility or technique(s) whereby I could repair
these files so as to reclaim most, if not all, of the archived material?
Obviously, if a "header" is corrupt, there's not much I can do about
the block to which the header belongs, but I hope that other blocks
thereafter can be found and recovered.
Help!??!!
-- Kenn Goutal
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