>>I expected the cure to be worse than the disease :).
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>>>Well, it could not be worst then the situation I faced. :)
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>>Well if you say so... but this is for just the extreme cases, when the header was overwritten but at least the length of the file stayed, i.e. the offset to beginning of records stayed intact.
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>>I fully understand that you had to have a situation or else you wouldn't be asking for this :). Inside, there be dragons (pun intended).
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>No problem. My normal nick is Hedgehog, so I use my spines to protect myself against dragons.

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