Re: Program to Catalog PASCAL disks?

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

CBS (jsmith66@hotmail.com) wrote:
: Hi,

: I don't have PASCAL, but I want to read what I think is a Pascal disk.

: Copy II+ doesn't choke real bad on this disk (grrrrrrrrrrrr  grrrrrrrrrr
: grrrrrrrr) like blank or damaged disks do.  It reports "disk not PRODOS
: or 3.3 format"

I don't know what you are running on, but GS/OS includes a file system
translator for Pascal; I believe the ProDOS System Utilities can handle
Pascal, and I thought that some versions of Copy ][+ could read Pascal. 
It runs in my mind that the ProDOS file system borrowed heavily from
Pascal, but I may be completely wrong about that.

Anyway, the other possibility, if it looks like a Pascal disk and programs
that can normally read Pascal disks choke on it, it might be an old PFS:
disk (File or Write), in which case getting the data off could possibly be
a real challenge.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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