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From: OC.CIVIL@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU (Holt Farley)
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Subject: Corrupt VMS accounting file
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Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 15:01:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  9 15:01:04 1987
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	I had a disk failure that corrupted the accountng.dat data file on
one of our systems.  Approximately 1/3rd of the way into the file the 
accounting utility reports a read error of the sort:

	%ACC-E-READERR
		-RMS-W-RTB, 1171 byte record too large for user's buffer

and then gives up.  DEC Software Support claims they know of no way to read
the data past the error.

	Surely there is a way to get to the good data beyond the corrupt 
records without resorting to using the ACR$ system calls.  Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance...

Holt Farley
Columbia Univ. Civil Eng.
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