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- From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri)
- Subject: Re: Attempted post
- In-Reply-To: sterne@dublin.llnl.gov's message of 12 Nov 92 01:04:48 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:10:16 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <141238@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, sterne@dublin.llnl.gov
- >>>>> (Philip Sterne) writes:
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- PS> ObHack: Using dd to salvage as much as I could from a disk whose
- PS> superblock was clobbered in a power outage. That was in days when
- PS> we only had a TK50 for backups and we were young and
- PS> indestructible. Wading through the disk playing jigsaw puzzle
- PS> games with the ASCII files ages you fast!
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- I've done similar stuff on my old Apple ][. It's lots of fun when the
- directory track dies and you're down to searching for track/sector
- lists, trying to piecemeal files back together on a new disk with a
- sector editor, then building a new directory from scratch.
-
- --Rat
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