From:	"Damian Yerrick" <die DOT spammers AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Text File Restore.
Date:	Sat, 4 Sep 1999 11:22:58 -0500
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TM <tommyminton AT access1 DOT net> wrote in message
news:37d0a295 DOT 21731596 AT news DOT access1 DOT net...
> I made a huge mistake:  opened a text file in "w" mode.  Of course, my
> 3.8 meg file is zero length now.  Anybody got a scheme to recover the
> file?  I'm running win98 with FAT32.

I don't know for sure, but try using Norton or something.
If I were you, I would have backed up the file in a Zip
archive before using untested code on it. At least that's
what I did when developing search-bible.exe.

Damian Yerrick
http://come.to/yerrick.

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