The recovery program author made the only choice that he could. With no
directory and no intelligence about the internal structure of Canon CR2
files he has no choice but to hope things are sequentially allocated.
Chuck Norcutt
Manuel Viet wrote:
> Le mardi 19 Décembre 2006 05:03, Chuck Norcutt a écrit :
>> I don't remember the three modes but memory does not necessarily serve
>> me well. Perhaps it came much later than DOS 3.2 which was the last
>> time I had anything to do with DOS at a programmer's level.
>
> I took a look at my DOS quick ref and I couldn't spot what I remembered ; but
> this doc only covers the official DOS api, and there are lots of functions
> that Mickeysoft did not see fit to reveal to competitors at the time. When I
> used to program in assembly, I relied on the comprehensive DOS bible, but
> this one's in my parents attic with what's left of my teenager's days. So I
> can't be too sure.
>
>> And I wasn't aware that I had "assumed an allocation strategy"; at least
>> in any sense that I could make meaningful decisions about it.
>
> The camera's firmware programmer made it for you, and the recovery program
> author made another one. You happen to have been trapped in the gap.
>
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