[Info-vax] ODS-5 data/file recovery

[MG]

On 16-feb-2013 20:04, Keith Cayemberg wrote:
> Have you tried the FLORIAN undelete utility? It has worked well for
> me the few times I have used it. It was likely programmed for ODS-2,
> however since the on-disk structures of ODS-5 are mostly very similar
> to ODS-2, it may work anyway.
>
> http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?FLORIAN
>
> Please read the instructions carefully before using.

No, I don't think I've heard of this one!  (Or, I then don't
recall having used it recently.)

So, anyway, I just built it --- it compiled and linked fine,
no problems on a different architecture like I64 (one of the
strong points of VMS, I should stress), especially with the
excellent MAKE procedure --- and went very smooth!

    $ @MAKE
    Compiling FLORIAN....
    Linking FLORIAN....

But then, upon execution:

    $ MCR $1$DKA1:[data_recovery]FLORIAN $1$DKA6: [0,0]OLSYS.ZIP
    *** not a Files-11 Structure Level 2 disk volume

Misfortune strikes again!  Oh well.  I doubt anyone here has the
interest, time or feels 'philantropical' enough to spend the time
to rewrite or help me rewrite it to make it suitable for ODS-5...

  - MG