Re: prodos utility question

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <59rf0a$9fk@news.ysu.edu>,
Adalbert Goertz <be404@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:
>When I use a prodos utility like copy2+ to catalog disks
>I get often NOT A PRODOS OR DOS DISK.
>That doesnt say much.

   So get a better program or deal with it. Usually disks like this
are copy protected (and there's no files worth grabbing off them then)
or they're Pascal disks. [Mostly ditto-- random files are likely to be
source code (unusable to non-programmers), pascal-requiring programs,
or other oddball stuff]

>Is there a utility which goes one step further and would tell me
>what I have? like Pascal or what?

   Section 5.5 of the comp.sys.apple2 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
mentions the program Chameleon, which can read files off ProDOS, DOS
3.3, Pascal and CP/M disks. I've never used it, but it's likely to
have some ability to give you a disk catalog. Alternatively, if you
install System 6.0.1 on your GS (a HD is pretty much needed for this),
the DOS 3.3 and Pascal FST (get my GUPP patcher-- it makes the FST
recognize legal punctuation in disk names) can recognize disks.

Nathan Mates

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