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- From: eachus@oddjob.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Help needed recovering ASCII data from FAST RAM
- Message-ID: <EACHUS.92Dec21115937@oddjob.mitre.org>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:59:37 GMT
- Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service)
- Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
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- My daughter was working on a project for school this weekend.
- She was using Micro-Gnu Emacs 2a and AmigaDOS 1.3.2 on an Amiga 1000
- with a hard drive, a Wedge controller, SOTS 2 Meg board, ConMan and
- DMouse 1.20. Unfortunately she never saved her work, and last night
- when she asked me to show her how to set up Promise, we discovered
- what acts like a layers library lockup. :-( I can't open the (two)
- iconified MG2a instances, and I think I caused a requester to try to
- pop-up from the shell.
-
- Of course the nicest way to fix the problem would be to figure
- out how to unlock it from the shell (if I can get a prompt back), but
- even then every useful tool I can think of opens a window. (The
- behavior is that I can resize the shell window, and move the MG2a
- icons/windows around, and ConMan is active in the shell, but Workbench
- can't update anything, and validator.device does nothing if I swap
- floppies.
-
- Absent a miracle like that, I figure I will have to nerve pinch
- then try to recover the text from FAST RAM. I have another Amiga at
- home so I can create a custom boot disk if that is a good idea, but I
- assume that booting from the current boot disk will not overwrite
- anything I care about. (It's what happens next that gets touchy, but
- anything smaller than MG2a will probably be safe.) If I had a small
- program to copy FAST RAM to the hard drive, that should do the trick.
- Any ideas?
-
- Also, does anyone know of an upgrade to or replacement for
- billsdisk.device?
-
- (Use e-mail for suggestions of how to recover the data, and
- /dev/null for posts telling me I'm out of luck or to upgrade to
- AmigaDOS 2.1. While she was working on the paper, I was arranging for
- the local dealer to install a Kwickstart board in this machine for
- Christmas...but I need to recover the data first. Hmmmm...Hardware
- upgrade suggestions should go the same place, since I will probably
- get a 4000 and a 1200 under the upgrade deal, but this machine will be
- in my daughter's room for a year or two longer. :-)
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- Robert I. Eachus
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