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

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