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- Recover v1.0 ©1993 Diemar Eilert
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-
- A program to recover text buffers after your system has chrashed. Recover will
- scan all available memory locations (the free memory pool as well as memory
- allocated by other task), looking for lost buffers. Since freed memory is not
- protected by the OS, lost buffers may become trashed. Recover will still try to
- restore trashed buffers but they may contain garbage lines. You'll have to
- verify that restored buffers are intact before you copy them over your old
- files. Recover will try to figure out how many lines are corrupt to give you a
- rough idea of wether additional work is required. Be warned: these figures are
- not exact since it's hard to determine wether a line is corrupt or not. To
- increase your chances, run this program as soon as possible. Interrupt your
- startup sequence (type CTRL-D) and run recover IMMEDIATELY. Recover disables
- multitasking while scanning memory to prevent other tasks from allocating
- memory - this means that your mouse pointer freezes temporarily. Recover should
- be run from a shell window. The following arguments are supported:
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- RECOVER DRIVE/K,ALL/S,TEST/S,MAXLEN/N,MAXLINES/N
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- DRIVE
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- Drive where to write restored files (e.g. df0:).
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- * Don't use a ram disk (might overwrite the text to recover) or a hard disk *
- * (program might fail while writing since it has to do some dangerous stuff) !*
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- ALL
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- Recover file even if it appears to be unchanged (Recover defaults to ignoring a
- text if it has never been modified).
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- TEST
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- Just scan memory for text buffers to recover but don't write to a disk. Recover
- tries to figure out how many lines can be restored respectively are corrupt. A
- line is considered corrupt if it containes ASCII-Codes below 32 or from 128 to
- 160. Nevertheless, even corrupt lines are restored since parts of them may
- still be usable.
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- MAXLEN
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- Maximum line lenght to be considered valid. If Recover happens to encounter a
- longer line while scanning memory it will refuse to restore the line (might be
- corrupt). Defaults to 255.
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- MAXLINES
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- Maximum number of lines (per text) to restore. Recover will stop recovery as
- soon as a text exeeds this limit (text might be corrupt). Defaults to 10000
- lines.
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