Tom, It Hurts I know. I was in Japan in the 1980's using Vax VMS and had a team working on a global stock product for Citicorp using their global network of the day. It was 11:00pm and everyone had left and I was backing up the what was to be the production SW the next day. I grabbed the wrong tape and the HD crashed in the middle of the backup. The other tapes were too old. I had the "pit-in-your-gut" thing and smoked about five cigarettes in a row. Smoking in the office, how quaint but I digress. I spent the night dumping all the readable sectors to text files and putting the fragments together by hand. I salvaged about 80% of the code. But this caused the programmer to rewrite about 50% of the code in an all night session the next day. Well it came out better, only one day late and some lost pride. I get chills just thinking about.
Thinking of you big guy! Hope you can come to Edinburgh. The first pint is on me. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services [email protected] _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
