Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] excuses, excuses

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> 2) Student comes in on the day when the short paper is due waving
>    a floppy disk that is alleged to contain a paper that is now
>    unreadable.  I am suspicious, but graciously offer to help
>    recover the paper on the disk since I have some amazingly
>    effective disk and file repair tools available, geek that I
>    am, and, hey, office hours are right now!
>
>    It's amazing how quickly somebody can go as white as a sheet.
>    Student confesses, I admit that I really don't have any such
>    tools, the paper is accepted the following day, and I swear I
>    have never seen a more grateful student in all of my days.

I often saved students and professors that had lost important work due to
floppies going bad. I think all instructors should tell students to back
up all work to an extra disk.. then if they don't then tough luck. BTW
'dd' does some amazing things with floppies that are dying. Rip the usable
bits off the disk, mount the image, copy the files to a new disk, and wham
everything is fixed. Frequently you'll get 100% good copy of all the files
on the disk despite the disk being bad.

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