[TUHS] Unix v7 icheck dup problem

[Noel Chiappa]

    > I'm not sure if 'fsck' would fix these

Turns out it was called 'fcheck' when we had it.

    > I have a V6 one

I'd already put it on my Web site, here:

  http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s1/fcheck.c

if anyone wants it.


    > From: "Ron Natalie"

    > You had adb?

Yeah, MIT had a lot of stuff that 'fell off the back of a truck' (including
things like the circuit design tools, etc). Well, having an undergrad who was
in the famous Boy Scout troop at Bell helped... :-)


    > From: KenUnix <ken.unix.guy at gmail.com>

    > What I finally did was restore the ".disk" files from a previous backup

You may sit with Arlo Guthrie on the 'Windows user' bench. :-)


    > From: "Theodore Ts'o"

    > some have argued that if someone doesn't do backups of their research
    > data, maybe they don't *deserve* to get their Ph.D. :-)

'Think of it as evolution in action.'

Although I like the old story about the person at their oral exam and
the Coke bottle in the window.

	Noel