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  1. punchykool

    Reading 2.5 notebook disk in 3.5 desktop machine?

    Well a success story of sorts...I was about to purchase SpinRite's product, when a pal had asked me to try another USB drive case...I tried a Travelstar USB 2.0 case, and presto, I was able to get at all of the data on that disk. Recall that I have a Travelstar branded disk, so perhaps the PCB...
  2. punchykool

    Reading 2.5 notebook disk in 3.5 desktop machine?

    Interesting...I'll post up results tomorrow. -paul
  3. punchykool

    Reading 2.5 notebook disk in 3.5 desktop machine?

    Roger, The notebook disk simply did not boot up one day. It's one of our shop's notebooks, and it's never left the building, nor has it been dropped to my knowledge. When booting up on that notebook machine, it gets through the boot up screen (Dell in my case), and then just blue screens. I...
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    Reading 2.5 notebook disk in 3.5 desktop machine?

    Yup, there are jumper settings required for this travelstar. I've actually tried master, slave, and cable select with no luck. I've tried the util, GetDataBack-NTFS, and it does not pick up the disk either. And yup, I've tried connecting it as the lone device on the prim and second channels...
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    Reading 2.5 notebook disk in 3.5 desktop machine?

    I've got a corrupt IBM Travelstar DJSA-220 20GB hard disk from a notebook machine. It's 2.5" in size. I've got a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter. I've acquired the correct jumper setting from IBM to make this disk a slave. I've connected this disk to the desktop machine using the adapter. (And yes, I've...
  6. punchykool

    backing up by file types in specified folder

    outstanding, Matt! Thanks! -paul
  7. punchykool

    backing up by file types in specified folder

    Hi. In my unix world, I can easily define what file extensions I want to backup and from which directories, but I need to do this on a Windows machine. I have a large project folder containing code, binaries, zip files, test junk, and then documentation pieces. I want to be able to say from...
  8. punchykool

    method to increase column widths

    Ditto, Vlad. That helps drill the logic home :-) -paul
  9. punchykool

    method to increase column widths

    Thanks very much, you two! -paul
  10. punchykool

    method to increase column widths

    I am having issues getting awk to give me what I want. All fields are pipe delimitted. All first fields contain 7 chars. I need: 1. column 2 to have a set width of 20 chars 2. column 4 to have a set width of 30 chars BEFORE: 1829101|CHRYSLER|1961|WINDSOR|008|383|06277|6.3L|2BL| 20G...
  11. punchykool

    getting valid line counts

    ahhhhh. that makes sense. thanks for the explanation.
  12. punchykool

    getting valid line counts

    Ed, The octal dump did not print the newline char at the end of each line. There were newlines in the output, but not at the end of each line. PHV, Your solution of appending a newline to the file worked, although I am confused how that line feed worked and what causes this. :-)
  13. punchykool

    getting valid line counts

    Well, I had not noticed the message at the bottom of vi in this case, Ed. It reads: "myfile.txt" [Incomplete last line] 90 lines, 7339 characters 90 is indeed how many lines reside in the file. What is it complaining about do you suppose? I tried your translation command and wrote it to...
  14. punchykool

    getting valid line counts

    I have what appears to be a user error, but I cannot determine why the results are not coming out right. I have a file with 90 validated lines in it. //I counted them manually Using `wc -l`, it yields 89. I look for lines with the string "A" in it and get 79. //The prompt returns on a...
  15. punchykool

    using expr

    How do I get `expr` to recognize a decimal? Say I want to multiply some whole number by .05. expr 50000 \* .05 On my Sun OS 5.6 machine, this command yields: "expr: syntax error" I also tried protecting the dot, but that did not help either. Perhaps there are other soutions. Thanks in advance.
  16. punchykool

    force document to print portrait

    thanks, HTH !
  17. punchykool

    force document to print portrait

    rather than having the printer use a landscape format for a file that may exceed some recommended width when using the lpr command, can I get it to print in portrait? I tried using col with the -b flag and that did not help. Also, is there some method of forcing the text to wrap for the printer...
  18. punchykool

    searching for quote (") in an iSQL statement

    excellent! Thanks again, Ed. And I discovered that wrapping the string in double-quotes will allow me search for two single-quotes in my data. select * from tocs where toc_name matches "%'%'%
  19. punchykool

    searching for quote (") in an iSQL statement

    Hello, trying to find a double-quote (") in a varchar field. How do we do this? I have tried these, but obviously there are three sets of quotes and it doesn't like that. Aside from unloading the table and using other tools to find it, can we comment out the quote so it will return those...
  20. punchykool

    method to force backgrounding a process without &

    Thank you both!

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