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From: philip@amdcad.AMD.COM (Philip Freidin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Recovering file that DIR says is 0 bytes.
Message-ID: <17695@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 15:15:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdcad.17695
Posted: Fri Jul 24 15:15:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 15:31:26 EDT
References: <4142@vrdxhq.UUCP>
Reply-To: philip@amdcad.UUCP (Philip Freidin)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca.
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Keywords: FAT, file closing

In article <4142@vrdxhq.UUCP> bisanabi@vrdxhq.UUCP (Paul Paloski) writes:
>
>Five days ago I was using Procomm to communicate with a BBS.  I had a
>log file open to capture all data being displayed on my terminal.
>After about an hour of scrolling messages (I was going to read and
>sort them later), I promptly logged out and powered the machine off
>without exiting Procomm.  It immediately dawned on me that the FAT may
>not have been updated.  I held my breath and turned my AT on again.
>Sure enough, the file size was listed as 0 bytes !  Argghhh!  I didn't

>   .... more assorted descriptions of computer abuse.....


I too have done this, and at least for me, I found a wonderful program
to dig me out!
			chkdsk /f

This will let you recover most of what was sent (maybe even all).

Hope this helps.


Philip Freidin @ AMD SUNYVALE on {favorite path!amdcad!philip)
Section Manager of Product Planning for Microprogrammable Processors
(you know.... all that 2900 stuff...)
"We Plan Products; not lunches" (a quote from a group that has been standing
				 around for an hour trying to decide where
				 to go for ZemZemZ