zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:04 PM


> >From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at randy482.com>
> ---snip---
>>Some of the original DRI archives I sent to Gaby are examples especially 
>>of
>>the working disks that were never distributed outside of DRI.  On these
>>disks that contain up to three versions (*.A86, *.BAK, and the deleted 
>>file)
>>of the source code being developed I included teledisk images so people
>>could look at these unique disks byte by byte.
> ---snip---
>
> Hi
> On one of the disk images I was recovering, someone had deleted
> the wrong copy of the program. The broken one was in the normally
> readable directory while the good one was marked deleted.
> I was able to recover this from a complete image.
> Of course, there is always the bits of confidential information
> that gets onto disk that was never intended to be archived
> forever ( still of interest to some future generation ).
> Dwight

I learned a long time ago to scan entire disks for hidden treasures :-), as 
I said that's why I sometimes package the whole disk image.


Randy
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