Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:26:48 -0500 From: "Maildrop" <maildrop@qwest.net> To: "mpd" <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>, "Gregory Pavelcak" <gp@wilde.oit.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Sorry Windows Question but Important Message-ID: <NGBBIILBAKIFGHHCHOHPKENCCJAA.maildrop@qwest.net> In-Reply-To: <20020411204810.A89007@rochester.rr.com>
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Won't just cat work fine? cat /floppy/broken_file.doc > /tmp/fixed_file.doc In the furture I would suggest against using floopy for *any* type of storage, they are just way unreiable these days... at the very _least_ save it to a REAL hard drive, if it is important backup on network drive (another machines hard drive), CDR, zip disk or tape. Don't even try using a floppy for backup, they go bad easily. Don't trust floppy disk for anything, back 5-6 years you could, not now with price cutting and the low quality media that they sell dirt cheap. Flopies are *designed* to break right after you put important data on them... you decide if this is a joke or not... If the floppy is dead there isn't much you can do. You can try another computer and see if that works. Beter yet try reading it from the computer in which it was orignally saved (disk heads may be out of line). regards, Jack > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of mpd > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 7:48 PM > To: Gregory Pavelcak > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Sorry Windows Question but Important > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:36:51PM -0400, Gregory Pavelcak wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > A friend of mine has been working hard on a paper. She put it on a > > floppy and now can't open it. Here are some symptoms: > > > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The poor woman is frantic. It's > > time to reach out in a spirit of good will to a poor Windows user and > > forgive me for the off-topic post. > > If you just need the content, there's a program called catdoc > in the ports collection that will do just that: cat a .doc file > to stdout. /usr/ports/textproc/catdoc. > > > > > Thanks. > > > > Greg > > > > mike > -- > ___________________________________________________________ > > "OF COURSE NOT, OLD BEAN! NOW, WHO WANTS TO HELP > COUNT AND SORT MY NEW MONEY??" > - Mr. Nutty from "MR NUTTY AND THE NEW MONEY" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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