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From: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How to recover mangled unbatch scripts?
Message-ID: <451@zorch.UU.NET>
Date: 6 Apr 88 14:30:04 GMT
References: <1718@ilium.UUCP> <535@spectrix.UUCP>
Reply-To: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Organization: At Home; Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <535@spectrix.UUCP> clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris R. Lewis) writes:
|   To recover the data from (1), write a small C program (you might
|   be able to do this with sed or something too) that simply
|   copies the file to somewhere and IGNORES the characters
|   up to and including the first newline.  Then run the resultant
|   file thru uncompress.  eg:

Use dd(1); e.g., dd if=88blea of=foo bs=1 skip=13

Trims that leading garbage off just fine.  I should know; I've done it
this way...

|Chris Lewis, Spectrix Microsystems Inc,
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