Sorry, but your statement: 

   "The '-a' option checks the index without putting you in interactive mode. 
This won't help on a save set recover for a save set that is no longer 
browsable." 

is simply wrong. Instead it even works on save sets where no index info will 
ever be written. For instance, i use it to recover the NW resource directory 
from a bootstrap save set. I have done this for years. Just try it. And btw - 
since NW 6.0 bootstraps never become browsable. And as they do not have 
embedded file index info, you can not even scan these save sets. Well, actually 
you can, but there is no info to retrieve.

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