CompuServe Messages

Gus, I wish I could tell you how it happened. I tried using UNDEL from PC-TOOLS to no avail and UNDELETE from MS-DOS but unfortuneately I did not know about its NETWORK feature and it wasn't installed before the "deletion". Apparently it has some kind of mirroring which is transparent. It is now installed so we'll see how well it works. One curious thing however is that after I tried what I could to recover, I decided to go ahead and reformat the drive. I did this several times from within the PAR menu. At one point I was clicking on a test animation and I got a scrambled screen in the directory part and low and behold a submenu with some stills of the SMPTE bars etc. that I had put on the drive. I was suprised because of the format. Then I did a format from the DPS directory with FORMAT /M: and it cleared up the problem. This is all secondary, but I thought you might like to know. I take it the format in the menu is a high level format, and the FORMAT /M: is a low level format of sorts. Anyway if I can duplicate the scenario I'll be sure to let you know. The PAR has exceeded my best hopes and has otherwise been very robust. -JE