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Subject: Re: Trashed System: how to recover
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Date: 26 Jul 89 22:08:07 GMT
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In article <8376@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>Maybe someone can help me.  I made a slight miscalculation in a C program that
>I was writing this afternoon, and it trashed my System file.  I copied a new
>System onto my hard disk, and everything is up and running.
>
>But, there are all of these sounds, DAs, and fonts in the old system that I
>would like to have, since I don't have any copies of them (stupid me).  If
>I try to open it up, I get an eofErr (-39), which is a "logical end of file
>reached during read operation" error.  Now, I have this 2.1MB file that I
>can't read.
>
>Does anyone know of some software that could possibly repair this?
>
>-Michael
 
>Apple Student Rep      ARPA:  mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
>Ball State University  AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)



Mike,



Mike,
hmmm. the -39 error makes it kind of tough for you to do much....

Try these:

Scavenger Mac
Mac Zap
Fe Edit

I hope these will help you out...

-Rusty