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From: janderson%hqeis.DECnet@HQAFSC-VAX.ARPA ("HQEIS::JANDERSON")
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Subject: Re: data recovery question
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 07:20:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 23 07:20:00 1987
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>    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 DIR/SIZE command returns the value of the size of the file in
    the form USED/ALLOCATED. What this means to you is that the file
    had 2344 blocks of space on the disk allocated for the file but 0
    blocks of it were used. Sorry to say that there is no information
    to recover.
     
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