If you can scare up a copy of the DOS Norton Utilities, there is a "Unerase"
program that can recover erased files. Depending upon the sequence of "disk
drive events" since the original FD2002.bin file was erased, you may or may
not be able to recover this original file. There's other utilities with
similar features, but Norton is one I'm familiar with. If you can't find a
suitable tool, I'll see if I have an old version that might have fallen off
the back of the desk. Good luck.
73 de Bob - K0RC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cahaba Internet" <cahaba@cahaba.net>
To: <ct-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 4:22 PM
Subject: [ct-user] Urgent help needed!
> Here's hoping this is the only such post made here in the aftermath of
> Field Day 2002.
>
> ------
>
> HELP - please.
>
> One of our club's FD operators uses an ancient 8086 laptop with CT version
> 8.27.
> The laptop has one of the finest screens for daylight viewing you've ever
> seen, and
> works flawlessly with CT.
>
> The operator managed to work a few dupes by mistake and ran the RMDUPES
option
> to generate a new.bin with no dupes.
>
> The software created NEW.BIN, saved the old file as BIN.OLD and removed
the
> previous
> FD2002.BIN file (!)
>
> Attempting to read the new.bin file generates a prompt that the file 'is
not a
> version 8 log and that 7to8 must be run to convert it.
>
> Running 7to8 corrupts the devil out of the file.
>
> Anyone have any ideas how we can extract the data on the original bin
file?
>
> ... or anyone willing to help us with this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bill Levey - WA4FAT
> Birmingham Amateur Radio Club
>
>
>
>
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