Good Catch Karl!

Light bulb went off... Yes it truncates the group, not the file.  I 
remember Mark talking that if a file is tremendously undersized and has 
lots of overflow groups, the damage would be more severe.  Really makes 
sense now. 
   Steve

>Correction, you should only see loss of data after the BLINK error in he
>affected group only.

>Karl Pearson
>Senior uniVerse DBA and one who cut his teeth fixing blinks by hand
>(thanks to Mark Baldridge and Joel Yates).

<quote who="Stephen O'Neal">
> Anmol,
>
>...When they fix the file, the file will be truncated at
> the group where this occurred.  This can be anywhere in the file, 
because
> the group extended for overflow can be anywhere in the file.  You may 
end
> up with a file that is considerably smaller than your original file!
>
> A wake up call for others:  Watch out for your 2gb file limits on static
> files.
>
> Good luck in recovering your data!
>
> Regards,
>    Steve
>
> "Anmol Chandrakant Khopade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am receiving the following error:
>
> Computed blink of 0xB44 does not match expected blink of 0x0!
>
> Detected within group starting at address 0x80000000!
>
> Internal data error.
>
> ...
>
> Warm regards
>
> Anmol
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