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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 755.1 | Try the knife! | UKCSSE::KEANE | | Wed Jan 31 1990 06:01 | 10 |
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Hi Theo,
Have you looked at HIsofts "The Knife" disk program?. There was a
review for it in STWORLD recently, It appeared to do all sorts of magic
things on the floppies !
Cheers
Pat K.
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| 755.2 | You have a chance with text files | RODNEY::PETERS | Don Peters, CTC2-1/F10, 287-3153 | Wed Jan 31 1990 12:45 | 13 |
| "recreate the index file"?
In general, it seems like this is an impossibility. I had to do that once, but
the thing that saved me was that I had to reconstruct the index for a text
file. Via use of a program that was called Disk Doctor (I think), I was able
to check the content of each sector and note which ones had to be linked
together. Then I wrote a GFA Basic program that read all these sectors into
memory, and then wrote them out to a new file.
It worked just as I expected, but it was a tedious process finding the right
sectors and determining their order. Its sort of like trying to solve a
one dimensional puzzle. If the file to be reconstructed is not text, you have
little clue as sector ordering.
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| 755.3 | | KERNEL::BARTLEY | | Wed Jan 31 1990 22:06 | 10 |
| Thanks Guys,
I'll investigate the HiSoft product.
I was hoping there might be a PD product on the net, but clearly
from your answers there isn't. Oh well!
Regards,
Theo
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| 755.4 | PD Program Available | SUBURB::JAMESH | Left Handed People are SUPER Natural | Thu Feb 01 1990 06:59 | 3 |
| There is a PD program which I got with a magazine. I'll try to look
it out tonight and bring it in tomorrow.
...Howard
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| 755.5 | DLII | CARAFE::GOLDSTEIN | Praise be to Nero's Neptune | Thu Feb 01 1990 13:00 | 8 |
| There's also DLII, which undeletes files and will copy FAT2 to FAT1 (or
the opposite) if one of them (you guess which one) is corrupted. It's
by Simon Poole, author of Uniterm, and it has been a life-saver! My
copy is at
CARAFE::USER1:[GOLDSTEIN.ST]DLII.ARC
(Is Simon Poole the Peter Norton of the ST?)
fred
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| 755.6 | Protection Violation on DLII | KERNEL::BARTLEY | | Thu Feb 01 1990 22:33 | 7 |
| Hi Fred,
I tried to get your DLII, but the account or the file is protected.
Regards,
Theo
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| 755.7 | Recover.ARC | SUBURB::JAMESH | Left Handed People are SUPER Natural | Fri Feb 02 1990 07:18 | 4 |
| You can find "recover.arc" in CMOTEC::$1$DUA1:[JAMES.ATARI].
I've not tried it so don't know how good it is. They say it's best
on text files.
...Howard
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| 755.8 | DLII available again (see .5) | CARAFE::GOLDSTEIN | Praise be to Nero's Neptune | Wed Feb 14 1990 20:23 | 2 |
| re:.6
Sorry; I have fixed the protection. Try again.
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| 755.9 | Thanks Fred | KERNEL::BARTLEY | | Tue Feb 20 1990 09:00 | 6 |
| Thanks Fred,
I've got DLII in my account now. I'm looking forward to transferring
it to the ST and finding out what it can do.
Theo.
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| 755.10 | One more naive person.. (Me) | TENERE::JARDIN | | Wed Apr 18 1990 11:40 | 13 |
|
As I unfortunately got the same problem as some others (directory
crash) I am looking for any possible solution..
I could import Fred's DLII but could not access Recover.arc (see .7)?
I am facing an "access violation" error..Any help welcome.
Since the last note posted here was in February.. has there been any
new solution that those kindly indicated in the other notes?
Thanks
Pierre
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| 755.11 | MS-DOS utility helped ! | HAMSUP::MARXSEN | Univ.Milky.Sol.Earth.FRG.Hamburg | Tue May 22 1990 14:46 | 12 |
| Hi folks,
a friend of mine had a disk crash and visited me, placing a bit-copy
of it on my desk. We tried some ATARI stuff on it without success.
As a last try I slipped the disk into the drive of my IBM-compatible
laptop and started the RECOVER program which is part of the original
MS-DOS distribution.
... AND IT WORKED !!!
So, thanks to the good compatibility between ATARI and MS-DOS format !
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| 755.12 | Here is UNDELETE...May you never need to use it :-) | OLDTMR::WALLACE | | Fri May 25 1990 16:41 | 17 |
| The public domain program on the ST called RECOVER is fairly useless (unless
you're into pain and sweat :-). It's problem is that it requires you the user
to figure out what sectors need to be put together and in what order in order
to recover the deleted program.
I did find a much better program which will automaticly do the undelete for
you.
It can be copied from OLDTMR::$1$DUA8:[WALLACE.PUBLIC.ST]
UNDELETE.ARC - This program will show you a list of deleted
files and let you pick which ones you want
un-Deleted. It will then recover/undelete the
program automaticly (without any further information
required by you). I've only used this once just to
try it out. It was easy to use and it worked fine.
Ray
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