On Thu, 3 Nov 1994 11:07:45 +0100 (MET), Frode Tennebo said: > MessDos deletes files by marking the first letter in the filename > is marked '?'.
Indeed, so does the Sam and so does CP/M (although the ? is probably a zero character). > To undelete > all you have to replace the '?' with some legal character. Then IF you'r > lucky and MS/DOS have not used any of the sectors related to that > file, voila, you have an undeleted file. Of course, a good undelete utility checks all the sectors to make sure they are not used by any other file. If they are not, then you have a good chance of getting a good copy, and otherwise you are stuffed... imc
