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From: byoder@smcnet.smc.edu (Brian Yoder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to recover file when size=0?
Summary: There's hope yet!
Message-ID: <1990May2.213153.19997@smcnet.smc.edu>
Date: 2 May 90 21:31:53 GMT
References: <3520@tymix.UUCP>
Organization: Peter Norton Computing
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In article <3520@tymix.UUCP> pnelson@hobbes.UUCP (Phil Nelson) writes:

> HELP! What to I do now?

> I captured too much data using kermit, filling up my hard disk, then edited
>with MicroEmacs 3.10, which said "file truncated" or some such. OK, I said,
>I don't care about the end of the file anyway, so I tried to save (^X^S).
>The end result is that my file now has length = 0. Norton says there is 
>nothing to read, but I don't believe him. Can anyone help?

I wish you had included more information about exactly what happened, but from
the sounds of it you might be able to use Norton UnErase to manually
unerase the part of the file you downloaded.  If Kermit didn't name the file
or otherwise obscured the FAT entry the automated unerase might not be able
to find your information, give the manual parts of UnErase a try.

Brian Yoder

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