Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!yarvin-norman
From: yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: corrupted phone database
Message-ID: <28494@cs.yale.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 91 04:59:10 GMT
References: <170@ureka.UUCP>
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu
Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
Lines: 11
Nntp-Posting-Host: turquoise.systemsx.cs.yale.edu
Originator: yarvin@turquoise.CS.Yale.Edu

charlie@ureka.UUCP (charlie crassi) writes:
>Now I need to recover the corrupted file to retrieve all of the private
>unlisted and business contact phone numbers.

Most of the file consists of unprintable characters, and the remainder is
what you want, stored as text.  If the 3b1 cat took the '-v' option, that
would work; but it doesn't.  So you can use od -c to find out the numbers of
the unprintable characters in the file, and tr -d to remove them.

--
Norman Yarvin					yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu