./sysutils/magicrescue, Recover files from a block device by scanning for magic bytes

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.1.4nb10, Package name: magicrescue-1.1.4nb10, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to
recover and calls an external program to extract them. It looks
at "magic bytes" in file contents, so it can be used both as an
undelete utility and for recovering a corrupted drive or partition.
As long as the file data is there, it will find it.

It works on any file system, but on very fragmented file systems
it can only recover the first chunk of each file. Practical
experience (this program was not written for fun) shows, however,
that chunks of 30-50MB are not uncommon.


Required to run:
[lang/perl5]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

Filesize: 87.856 KB

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   2022-06-28 13:38:00 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3952) 
Log message:
*: recursive bump for perl 5.36
   2021-10-26 13:20:30 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (630) 
Log message:
sysutils: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 16:58:44 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (630) 
Log message:
sysutils: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2021-05-24 21:56:06 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3575) 
Log message:
*: recursive bump for perl 5.34
   2020-08-31 20:13:29 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3631) 
Log message:
*: bump PKGREVISION for perl-5.32.
   2019-08-11 15:25:21 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3557) 
Log message:
Bump PKGREVISIONs for perl 5.30.0
   2018-08-22 11:48:07 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3558) 
Log message:
Recursive bump for perl5-5.28.0
   2017-09-03 10:37:04 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (182) 
Log message:
Comment out dead MASTER_SITES/HOMEPAGEs.