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Post #172,351
by drewk
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9/2/04 2:01:24 AM
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New ($your_script)!
As in factorial. You'd have to try every possible combination of removing characters. Which is the number of potentially bad characters factorial. (Or is it 2 to the power of ... )
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Post #172,353
by Meerkat
9/2/04 2:21:44 AM
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New Not sure it'd need every possible combination
But I'm unsure of how much error checking uncompress done when uncompressing.

Frinstance, when I ran uncompress on the corrupted file, it gave me the first 70 characters or so, quite correctly, until it returned a 'file corrupted' messages. Which lead me to think uncompress knows when it's bad, so I could make it good, and let it continue on to the next error.

I wasn't going use this woolly thinking as the means to turn my script into reality, however! :)
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
     FTP - recover from a mistaken ASCII mode transfer? - (Meerkat) - (7) - Sept. 1, 2004, 09:12:24 PM EDT
         sorry! - (deSitter) - (6) - Sept. 1, 2004, 09:39:18 PM EDT
             Ta - I think they used Reflection's FTP client. - (Meerkat) - (5) - Sept. 1, 2004, 10:12:31 PM EDT
                 Might be, not sure. - (broomberg) - (4) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:03:13 PM EDT
                     Senses EOF - (deSitter) - (3) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:04:04 PM EDT
                         That's it exactly. - (Meerkat) - (2) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:27:40 AM EDT
                             ($your_script)! - (drewk) - (1) - Sept. 2, 2004, 02:01:24 AM EDT
                                 Not sure it'd need every possible combination - (Meerkat) - Sept. 2, 2004, 02:21:44 AM EDT

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