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From: "John Hanley" <jdhanley AT telusplanet DOT net>
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Subject: Re: corrupted file
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:05:39 -0600
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> If you are looking for a precious file, you will gladly agree to wait
> for hours.

Which is what it took me ;-)  Thanks for the advice folks!  I couldn't find
anything under DOS that would work, so I ripped the hard drive out and set
it up as a slave on my Windows box and ran a freeware data recovery software
that found it right away.

I don't know what happened, but I wonder if the program I was writing at the
time had memory leaks that overwrote something that caused a write to the
hard disk or something like that.  It was enough just so DOS couldn't see it
as a file.  It was completely there when I recovered it though.

Thanks a bunch!

John