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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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