Re: Need to print a text file from dsk

[Michael C Voorhis <mvoorhis@raven.WPI.EDU>]

Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> writes:
>      Suppose the Dsk is named Work.dsk. One try is, under Windows, to
> copy the Work.dsk file to another folder on your PC. Then, rename the
> copy to Work.txt. Now you can view the file under WordPad.

This doesn't work out too well if the file is large, and distributed
across multiple sectors on a disk.  It might be really painful if the
DSK is highly fragmented... then the person hoping to do extraction
will have to understand where the pointer to the next track/sector is
stored on the current sector, and go off to the new location...

and that's only if the thing is a DOS disk.  I don't know how ProDOS
works, or how (for instance) a UCSD PASCAL disk works.  I have a
corrups PFS:Write disk that I'd love to get some info off of...

	Mike.