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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-02-17 13:23:43 +0000, MG said:

> On 17-feb-2013 2:35, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> Why don't you do that?
>> 
>> You've already been told where the specs are and what the differences
>> from the specs are.
>> 
>> Get off your arse, and update the program.
> 
> That was hilarious, thanks!
> 
> /Sure/, yes, I will reprogram it... with my profound, two-and-a-half
> day and barely-read-into-it (amidst other activities... namely the
> migration), VMS file system knowledge.  LOL.

LOL all you want, but — in all seriousness — that sort of programming 
effort and that sort of detailed readings of the available specs and 
docs for a complex program or an operating system is how you learn the 
application or the operating system.  By using it. By programming it.  
By operating it.  Yes, by making mistakes.  There are theoretical 
aspects to programming, but there's also the need for journeyman-style 
experience with the target software; of gaining the confidence and 
experience to be able to research and to wade into some aspect of some 
complex software system, and minimally either hack it, or figure it out.

> I find it quite telling that nobody felt the need to do it before me,
> so to speak.  I guess it's another sign of VMS' sad, but inevitable,
> fate.

Some folks have the tools to recover deleted files, or have the budget 
to hire somebody that has the experience and tools, and many folks have 
backups.

If somebody should lack the skills and the budget and the backups, then 
there's a problem.


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