Date   : Thu, 04 Nov 1999 22:36:15 -0800 (PST)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: Cleaning disc heads?

Does anyone know where I can get a 5 1/4" head cleaning disc, or what I
should use to clean the heads of my drives? I'm trying to upload all of my
data from the BBC to a Linux box (*), but most of the discs are getting
errors, possibly because they were in storage for a couple of years, and not
much used for a couple of years before that.

(*) I'm using my re-write of XFer in C to upload the data. It runs on Linux
and Win32 (Windows 95/98/NT/2000), and supports hierarchical downloads,
disc image downloads, and full attribute information. I will upload it to
my two ftp sites next week while I'm in the U.K., my internet connection is
currently as slow as, and rather less stable than the link between the BBC
and PC. XFer in C will be freely available and open-source, the archive files
will contain full source code, and I will try to integrate fixes and
improvements sent to me (I don't have a publicly-accessible CVS server yet).

a.
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