Agh. this was low priority, and just went really high . . . I almost managed an "rm -r *~" to get rid of the backup files from emacs and the like, but [*insert tear here*] the 8 key on my laptop is dodgy, meaning I got ~ itself.
As usual, there was a single important file on the disk--a half-written journal article on the economics of free software. I've already followed the pages on file recovery, and haven't managed to find that file (though I found a couple of interesting ones I'd forgotten about :) It's a 340mb disk, with 340 devoted to drdos (hey, I can't go to conventions without master of orion, can I? :), and a 40 meg swap. There's 20 megs of ram, so I can use that for workspace instead. How do I read the raw device (ideally in 40m chunks of the unused space?) so that I can search my way through it for words & phrases? And of course, I need to hit the road tomorrow at 2:30 (that which suddenly made this urgent), and need to use the laptop while I'm gone. I"ll have to sacrifice this paper and start from scratch if I can't work this out by then . . . hawk
