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- LastHope
- Written by Manuel Lemos
- Version of 27th of May of 1991
-
- - Preface
-
- LastHope was written to help those who perhaps where victims of the
- mistake of deleting files that were not supposed to be.
- There are several programs, either commercial or public domain, but
- I don't any that can retrieve files which its headers had been wiped or
- just unreadable.
- For now, this program can only preform this task on standard file
- system (SFS) diskettes, which means that the program can do nothing for
- fast file system (FFS) diskettes.
- This program hould be perhaps the last thing you should try before
- you suicide. That's why I named it "LastHope". If you want to repair a
- disk with damaged sectors, I suggest you try programs like "FixDisk"
- before. I strongly discourage the use of "Disk-Doctor" which comes with
- the workbench disk (ignore system requesters that tell you to use it),
- because it tries to recover files to the same disk, overwriting intact
- and not deleted files with files with the same name that had been
- deleted. If you want to recover files from a device that uses FFS, say a
- Hard-Disk for instance, try perhaps "QuarterBack Tools", but remember
- that this program is not public domain.
- One important thing, is that you should always keep a backup copy
- of your work or programs, which almost of times saves you the grief of
- losing your dear bytes. If you are an Hard-Disk user, I perhaps would
- advise you to use "SuperBack". For floppy disks, any disk copy program
- would do.
-
- - Small print
-
- Every time you use this program to save your skin, think about the
- programmer because he had already thought about you, and feel free to
- contribute just a small sum which the shareware fee an