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From: hans@Shasta.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Desperately seeking MS-file format (and more)
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Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 00:40:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 00:40:21 1986
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Somebody asked me to repair an unreadable MS-file file.
To do this I need the MS-file file format.
Is this public or did somebody figure it out?
If yes could somebody send me the description?


This MS-file read problem makes me wonder though.
The file is 300k big. 
The disks whirrs a long time before the error alert-box appears (with only a
OK button ofcourse). This, probably, means that MS-file reads nearly the
whole file until it (or the OS) hits an error.
In stead of asking to continue with a damaged file it aborts the read. 
There you're stuck; a 300k file with probably 299.999k of valid data,
because of a flipped bit in the last byte, but worthless because you 
can't read it.

Is this the kind of error recovery generally used in Mac programs?


Hans Mulder

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