Re: Help! I've destroyed a language!

Dear Mike,
Have you tried "Drag'n'view"? I can only remember using it on Windows 3.1
but it may well be back-compatible from later windows stuff.
Mike Poxon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ellis" <nihilsum@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Help! I've destroyed a language!


> Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>
> >Mike, have you been able to recover the file after all?
>
> No, it was that badly corrupted. The lexicon could not be extracted from
> the archive, copied, moved, renamed, opened, viewed with any program...
> etc. etc. All the other files were extracted from the archive and backed
up
> elsewhere, though.
> I tried opening the file with winzip, winrar, powerarchiver and a few
> others I got off cnet and deleted when they didn't work. I tried pkzipfix,
> which also couldn't touch the file.
>   Most of the lexicon has been "rebuilt" by combining older dictionary
> files I had elsewhere, removing duplicate entries, and updating words
which
> I had changed. The upside is that I discovered I know more Rhean by memory
> than I ever thought! Then I had to search the archives of this and other
> lists for any Rhean translations and vocab, and the relays, and any corpus
> files posted anywhere, and add all the words from those.
> The rebuilt lexicon sits now at 2252 words, a few hundred short of the
> original. Every update is saved both on disk and uploaded to the web;
> neither copy is compressed.
> But thanks for your concern! And also thanks to those people who responded
> privately with their suggestions.
>
> M