dmb@psuvm.bitnet.UUCP (11/24/86)
*&^%&*&%^*%@@@!!!
I'm in a lousy mood today. This silly game machine sitting in front of me
is making me question whether or not an IBM wouldn't have been a better choice.
Naaa, life isn't that miserable.
I was writting a program, and had a billion lines written, (well maybe a few
hundred), when i went to save the blasted thing, pow, system error, and
subsequent reset. I hate the mac's reliability. Can't we please build a machine
that won't crash when we do something naughty? We put up with it when the
mac first came out, but come on, it's been how long??? I hope the new machine
from apple will be decent regarding protection.
I link to the net though a big IBM mainframe, and though i loathe it every
hour of every single day, damn, it never once crashed or threw up in the wrong
place. Of course what can you do of any interest with an IBM, (oh well what
ever you can do, it will be done safely.).
This is why the mac will not dominate the market place.
++++ Back to sanity ++++
After trying to reedit my program (Ha ha very funny) and using all kinds
of disk editors, my disk is in Deep S*** (<-- That's an official Apple term,
look it up in IM), the directory map is totally trashed, completed wiped clean
as a babies bottom, no disk editor known to man will edit the file, most crash
miserably at the mere mention of the filename, (the nice ones give me error
-127. Alas all is not lost, i can still look at the volume, a happy day!
Scattered all over the disk, are bits and pieces of my program. Now if i could
just cut and paste from Fedit, whoops, where's the cut copy paste commands in
the edit menu (naughty naughty not following the interface guidelines), so
here's the problem. How to I get my program back. Yea, yea i know use the .Sony
disk driver and use PBRead with refnum of -5, and the correct offset and bow
to the east three times and throw Inside mac over your left shoulder, and
paper shread one of your single sided disks as a sacrifice, and.....
Can anyone tell me how to get my program back???
How do i read from disk sector 310, etc...
exhaustedly,
dave
and it's only monday morningDMB@PSUVMA.BITNET (11/25/86)
Cheese!! That was pretty easy, I actually got the disk driver to
work... (all you guru's must excuse the ramblings of the feignt harded). Wow
it works pretty neat. I got my program back all in one piece, as simple as
magic. Actually it turns out my guestimate as to how to work the disk driver
was pretty close (you have to bow FOUR times to the east, instead of 3), but
it works, if folks are interested i post my program which restores text files
which are lost on the disk, by reading sectors one at a time.
Maybe the mac isn't all that bad.
dave