On the question of backups, it's not just the media that pose the problem. I once got a QL floppy corrupted by accidentally leaving it under a sheet of paper and then running an electric cable over the top! I made the damaged sectors readable by overwriting each with 512 0s and so recovered the files. After I'd got the Text87 files off the disk, I stripped out the formatting, imported the text, and restored the missing sentences from memory.
I've just created a M$ doc and looked at it: no readable text in sight! And an odt file from OpenOffice is a compressed archive: one crucial byte lost and it couldn't be opened. The moral would seem to be: keep more than one backup and restore them regularly. As for me, I'm still keeping copies of everything less than 1.4MB on floppies. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
