T.UNSCRATCH
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FILENAME(S): T.UNSCRATCH
FILE TYPE(S): SEQ
FILE SIZE: 1.6K
FIRST SEEN: 2025-11-30 18:12:04
APPEARS ON: 1 disk(s)
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| DISK TITLE | FILENAME | FILE TYPE | COLLECTION | TRACK | SECTOR | ACTIONS |
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| LOADSTAR 28 S 2 | T.UNSCRATCH | SEQ | Sailor, Ganheden | 30 | 0 | DOWNLOAD FILE |
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.. UNSCRATCH. BY. CYNDIE MERTEN AND AMY MOUNTCASTLE. ..COMMODORE MICROCOMPUTERS MAGAZINE.SEPT EMBER/OCTOBER, 1986... OOPS... DID YOU REALLY MEAN TO..SCRATCH THAT FILE? WELL , YOU'RE AN..EXPERIENCED PROGRAMMER-- YO U HAVE..A BACK-UP. DON'T YOU?... IF TH E ANSWER IS NO-- DON'T PANIC--..AT LEAST NOT BEFORE YOU TRY UNSCRATCH,..A PROGRA M DESIGNED TO RETRIEVE..SCRATCHED FILES FROM DISK.... ISN'T A FILE ERASED WHEN YOU SCRATCH..IT? NOT EXACTLY. WHEN A F ILE IS..SCRATCHED, NONE OF ITS CONTENTS ARE..ACTUALLY ERASED FROM DISK. INSTEAD ,..THE FILE IS MERELY MARKED AS A..SCRAT CHED FILE IN THE DISK DIRECTORY...IN OTH ER WORDS, THE "FILE-TYPE" IS..CHANGED TO "0".... IF YOU HAVE NOT SAVED ANYTHING TO..DISK AFTER YOU SCRATCHED THE FILE,. .YOU HAVE A SHOT AT RETRIEVING THE FILE. .WITH UNSCRATCH. UNSCRATCH CHANGES THE. .FILE'S FILE-TYPE MARKER FROM "0" TO..TH E FILE-TYPE IT HAD BEFORE. (YOU..MUST S PECIFY THE OLD FILE-TYPE.)...WARNINGS.-- ------..-- IF YOU HAVE SAVED SOMETHING T O.DISK AFTER THE SCRATCH OCCURRED,.HOWEV ER, THE FILE IS PROBABLY LOST.FOREVER-- OVERWRITTEN BY NEW DATA....-- IF YOU HAV E SAVED TO THE DISK SINCE.THE SCRATCH, N OT ONLY WILL THE.SCRATCHED FILE PROBABLY BE.UNRECOVERABLE-- NEWLY SAVED FILES.CO ULD BE CORRUPTED BY THIS PROGRAM..THEREF ORE, COPY ALL FILES TO ANOTHER.DISK BEFO RE RUNNING THIS PROGRAM...-- ONE MORE WA RNING... THIS PROGRAM.USES THE VALIDATE COMMAND. SINCE SOME.DISKS HAVE INFORMAT ION THAT IS NOT.HANDLED CORRECTLY BY VAL IDATE.COMMANDS, DO NOT USE UNSCRATCH ON SUCH.A DISK-- OR ON ANY DISK YOU WOULD N OT.VALIDATE (COLLECT) FROM BASIC....DISK FILES THIS PROGRAM USES:..UNSCRATCH..-- ---------< END OF TEXT >------------.
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