This came to me anonymously. I don't know whom to give the credit to, but I decided to put this up here anyway.
Just in case you haven't been using your Adobe Type On Call CD as a coaster, you might like to know that Norton Utilities can pull off every single font on the CD. It's easy.
First, find Norton Disk Doctor (which contains the UnErase functionality) on your hard drive and give it a lot of RAM. There are 12,000 files on the CD... when you pull them off, you're going to need a good 16 MB or so. I promise you that adding RAM to the "Open Unerase" program will do nothing... all it does is launch Disk Doctor and run a quick script. Disk Doctor is what you need to add RAM to.
Then just stick in the CD and run Norton. Go to "Unerase." Let it do its automatic thing, which will turn up a handful of files. Click "Search Again" and do a "Directory Scan" searching NOT for "Erased Files" but for "Real Files (used portions of the disk)." Click OK. In a few seconds (or minutes, depending on your computer) you'll see all the fonts perfectly intact.
Note: Only attempt to sort the list by name, etc if you have a LOT of time. On my machine it took almost ten minutes to sort by Name. So avoid clicking on things like that unless you have laundry to go check or something.
The files with wack names (f______.ldkjj) and stuff are presumably unix font files, since the CD is a hybrid for unix, mac, and windows. The CD this works for me with is TOC 4.0. It may not work on more recent versions of the disc.
Despite the fact that some postscript files come across with Beanie icons, they seem to work perfectly.
