                            RECOVER

RECOVER is an external command used to recover file(s) from a damaged diskette 
or disk. You know a file needs recovering when DOS tells you that a read or 
write error occurred accessing the file. It is much easier to use a separately 
purchased program to recover files from a hard disk. Its use on hard disks is 
not recommended. (See the WARNING below.)

    RECOVER [d:][pathname]filename[.ext]
     or
    RECOVER d:

[d:][pathname]filename[.ext] will recover a single file. RECOVER reads the 
specified file, skipping any portions that are unreadable. It will recover 
the readable portion of the file, and lock out the rest from future use.

d: will recover an entire disk.  The root directory will be rebuilt, with all
files renamed to FILEnnnn.REC (where nnnn is a four digit number starting with 
0000). All recovered files (including those in subdirectories) will be placed 
in the root directory. RECOVER will also remove the label from the disk. Large
files may be broken up into several separate FILEnnnn.REC files.

RECOVER won't work for disks on another computer in a network. RECOVER should
not be used with ASSIGNed, JOINed, or SUBSTed disk names.

WARNING: If a disk has more than 112 files, only 112 can be recovered at one 
time, because the root directory can only have a maximum of 112 entries in it. 
After recovering some files, it is necessary to copy them to another disk, 
delete all the FILEnnnn.REC entries, and repeat the RECOVER command, until all 
the files are recovered. 
