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Help!!!
Oh boy! It happened...the dreaded hard drive crash with no backup :(
If someone could be so kind as to offer some advice it would be greatly
appreciated.
Here's the situation...
I am trying to bring up an Aw5 DB file. It is on a Prodos volume in the HD.
I have followed the directory structure and found where the foul-up is.
What I am puzzled by is after the key-pointer of the directory file. The
prodos tech manual sez that the key block of the data file points to the
the data blocks for the file but what I dont understand is what the bytes
mean. Or better put, once I get to the key-block where do I go with the
2byte numbers in the key block?
The good news is the db file is contiguous and all the data is in
consecutive blocks on the HD.
What I am trying to accomplish is to manually copy the file block by
block to the RAMdisk and then resave it to a floppy.
Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated!!!
TIA
Jim
P.S. Send correspondence via e-mail since I dont know when I will be on
next!
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James M (Jim) Poore--Apple II's Forever--Especially IIgs's
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