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- From: tspindle@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (tom spindler)
- Subject: Re: Attempted post
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.062310.19323@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Organization: Northea$tern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
- References: <141238@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <RATINOX.92Nov11211311@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:23:10 GMT
- Approved: probably not.
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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.
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- Aw, but if you have the T/S lists intact, that makes things pathetically
- easy. Not hard at all.
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- ObHack: on said Apple II, modifying RWTS to read in sectors that had
- been written with the wrong skew pattern but write them out normally.
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