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Subject: RE: Data recovery question.
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 12:40:00 EDT
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> Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 87 15:40 CST
> From:         Bob Sloane 
> Subject:      Data recovery question.

> I am trying to find out if there is any way to recover the output file from
> a fortran program that was accidentally killed by one of our operators.
> The output file from the program is still on disk, but if you do a
> DIRECTORY/SIZE=ALL on it, it shows the size as 0/2344, which I assume means
> that there is 2344 blocks of recoverable information on the file.  Does
> anyone have any ideas on how to get the information back?

The SET FILE/END_OF_FILE command resets the end-of-file mark to the highest
block allocated.