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Article #1601ZOO Fixer, Screen Saver
From: Russell Gladden
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 16:03
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 16:03
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I'm looking for a utility that will (attempt to) repair a corrupted ZOO archive. I have a ZOO file that contains several ARCed text files (it's a long story...) but the first disk sector on which the ZOO originally resided went bad, and got filled with a random character on a subsequent copy. There is only one file I want to extract from the archive, and it begins well into the file. Hence it's fully intact, but I need to reconstruct the start of the ZOO so that the extractor won't choke on it. Help! Also, I'm looking for a DOS (non-Windows) screen saver that will properly restore to a 50-line VGA text screen when it exits. I'm running a terminal program (Telix) in 50-line mode, and all the screen savers I've tried so far (Explosive, Inner Mission, etc.) drop back into 25-line mode when a key is pressed, requiring me to manually set the terminal back into 50-line mode each time, and thereby cancelling the convenience of the screen saver in the first place. Switching to 50-line mode is no big deal with a simple BIOS call, but nobody seems to check for it. Any ideas, pointers, or hints on these topics would be gratefully accepted. -- Russell J. Gladden : rjg@garfield.cs.mun.ca | "As the people here grow colder 134-B Patrick Street, St. John's /~~~~~~~~~~| I turn to my computer, and Newfoundland, Canada, A1E 2T1. / Crisis? | spend my evenings with it Telephone: (709) 753-5463. / What Crisis? | like a friend..." -- Kate Bush.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!torn!csd.unb.ca!morgan.ucs.mun.ca!cs.mun.ca!garfield.cs.mun.ca!rjg From: rjg@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Russell Gladden) Subject: ZOO Fixer, Screen Saver Message-ID: <1992Sep7.160348.25960@cs.mun.ca> Sender: rjg@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Russell Gladden) Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:03:48 GMT Lines: 24