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From: guy@cbnewsc.att.com (guy.r.berentsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: corrupted phone database
Keywords: 3b1 .phdir
Message-ID: <1991May6.225809.20747@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 6 May 91 22:58:09 GMT
References: <170@ureka.UUCP>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <170@ureka.UUCP>, 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. I could write a getc putc
> routine to retreive the ascii portions and reconstruct the database again
> but I don't want to if someone else has already figured this mess out.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated :-)
> --
> charlie

I had the same problem and wrote a short program to do an ascii
dump of the complete directory, including deleted entries.
I printed this out and reeentered anything I needed by hand.
(This was alot easier than tring to rebuild 
the whole file.)
I could Email or post the recovery program if anyone wants it.

The .phdir file structure is documented in one of the manuals.

Guy Berentsen
att!ihlpf!guy