Re: undeleting vfat files

2005-06-28 Thread G Chinnery
Not a linux prog but getdata back is a very good winblows prog if you can get ya hands on MS corrupted system to do it on. *8-) Volker Kuhlmann wrote: If memory serves me right, ???deleting??? a file on a FAT disk involves overwriting the first-character of the file-name, which marks the bloc

Re: fortune -m Lehrer

2005-06-28 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Rex J wrote: Welcome to FreeBSD! Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"] Hmm, if I may rephrase that A luser is anyone who couldn't have written the sy

Re: fortune -m Lehrer

2005-06-28 Thread Rex J
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:00 +1200, John Carter wrote: > My favourite... > It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age > he had been dead for two years. I liked this one so much it's hard coded into the motd zeus# cat /etc/motd FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE (X) #0: Sun Sep 7 1

fortune -m Lehrer

2005-06-28 Thread John Carter
Of course you can just ask fortune for a Lehrer based fix of cynicism. My favourite... It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (6

Re: Booking system

2005-06-28 Thread Paul Swafford
Craig .. strikes me that another fast/filthy method is a BBS .. shouldn't be too hard to set up . with different levels of access rights etc. Of course something more sophisticated using php/mysql in combo with say LDAP authentication (or similar) would be a project for some budding programm

RE: Booking system

2005-06-28 Thread Craig FALCONER
No sorry - Any user could and would overwrite another user's entries. A wiki offers nothing more than a word document saved in a globally writeable place :-) The booking system must be better than that, else the users will get put off. -Original Message- From: John Carter [mailto:[EMAI

Re: undeleting vfat files

2005-06-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> If memory serves me right, ???deleting??? a file on a FAT disk involves > overwriting the first-character of the file-name, which marks the blocks > as free. Therefor, if you get desperate ;-) Yes, but in this case I'm not that desperate. fatback 1.3 is the better tool, but didn't get anywhere n

Re: undeleting vfat files

2005-06-28 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:15, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Is there any linux program with which I can undelete files from a > vfat-formatted USB stick? fatback 0.3 isn't successful, neither is > fsck.vfat - it doesn't help that the latter wants the name of the file. fatback is now at version 1.3 http://

Re: undeleting vfat files

2005-06-28 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 20:15 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Is there any linux program with which I can undelete files from a > vfat-formatted USB stick? fatback 0.3 isn't successful, neither is > fsck.vfat - it doesn't help that the latter wants the name of the file. If memory serves me right, “de

undeleting vfat files

2005-06-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Is there any linux program with which I can undelete files from a vfat-formatted USB stick? fatback 0.3 isn't successful, neither is fsck.vfat - it doesn't help that the latter wants the name of the file. Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in

Re: Apple ( nee Claris ) Works file reader.

2005-06-28 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:10, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:10 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:05, Nick Rout wrote: > > > is it a word processing file or a spreadsheet or a database or a > > > drawing or what? > > > > > > google suggests kword or abiword will

Re: Apple ( nee Claris ) Works file reader.

2005-06-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:10 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:05, Nick Rout wrote: > > is it a word processing file or a spreadsheet or a database or a drawing > > or what? > > > > google suggests kword or abiword will work on word processing files, > > > > a google on clar