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From: disd@hubcap.clemson.edu (Gary Heffelfinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: fun and games with Disksalv
Message-ID: <6275@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 89 19:55:21 GMT
References: <7591@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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From article <7591@cbmvax.UUCP>, by daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie):
> in article <29666@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) says:
>> Keywords: Starship Enterprises
> 
>> Hey guys, I just discovered a neat trick with disksalv! Using disksalv
>> you can un-delete files you accidentally hosed. Say you just downloaded
>> 3 mb of animations from the WhizBangBBS. You go to your disk and see all
>> of those .info thingies that the Download! program leaves scattered about.
Funny you should mention this.  A few days ago I mistakenly deleted all 
revisions of a 3 page newsletter I'd been working on for days.  I sang
praises to Dave as DiskSalv saved my butt.

Actually, if the truth be known, PageStream somehow created a bogus icon
in my document drawer that got tied to all of the files in that drawer.
There was a nameless "project" icon which, when I selected it and
discarded it, proceeded to delete all of the files in the directory.
Steven King could've written a novel about it. :-)

That'll teach me to use the Trashcan.  :-)

So, praise be to Dave! 


BTW, PageStream is otherwise a reasonably good DTP package. My newsletter
got out on time and it looked sharp.  The postscript generated by it was
very good by my admittedly simple standards.  PageStream is still bug
ridden, but those who can't afford Pro Page, and who'd still like good
postscript output, should give it a look.


Gary


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