Recovering from crash after power failure without having done backups

Hi,
Is it possible to use RMAN or any other technique to recover an Oracle 9i db using just the archive and redo log files that Oracle automatically creates. My DB crashed and I have not done any backups ever. If it's possible, what is the easiest way?
Please note that I am not a DBA. Just a programmer using oracle.
The data is not critical but being able to recover it will save lots of time.
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What are the real results of this crash? Are the datafiles lost? If not and nothing (disk) is damaged, such a power failure is the same as a 'shutdown abort'. After restart Oracle automatically performs a crash recovery and only uncommitted transactions are lost.
But it's not enough to have only logfiles (archived and online).
Werner

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