Recovering dBase

Press, 11 July 1989, Page 30

Recovering dBase

A product that recovers damaged dßase files has been put on the market with a recommended retail price of $lBO. DBase File Recovery is produced by MUND Information Systems, of the United States, to the design of Keith Mund. DBASE File Recovery works by first allowing users to assess the type of damage their files may have suffered. The program then allows the user to search existing, undamaged files for damaged or corrupted portions. “Even the most careful dßase user can, from time to time, experience the frustration of losing a file due to improper floppy disk swap, power failure or unintentional deletion of a file,”

said Mr Clive Cooper-Smith, general manager of Ashton-Tate New Zealand. “Now, as long as your data still exists somewhere on your disk (and it almost always does), dBASE File Recovery can help you restore up to 100 per cent of virtually every type-of corrupted file.” Among the types of damaged files dBASE File Recovery will restore are files with embedded end of file and null characters; files with shifted data, even multiple shifted areas in the same files; and files with damaged or nonexistent headers. The product will also restore data that is not contained in a file listed in the directory, deleted or zapped files and disks with corrupted directories or file allocation tables. It requires 256 k of RAM memory.