Re: Can anyone extract Forth source from "f83x.sou" files?

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4uu8ev$qbu@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>,
Bruce R. McFarling <ecbm@cc.newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
>	On the main forth archive, at the http://taygeta.com site,
>there is a directory in the Forth ftp archives for "apple2" files,
>and on the site are two files, "f83x.sou" and "f83x.uti".  This is
>supposed to be a 6502-based extended version of the F83 system.
>I had been told by someone a while back that they were Apple2
>disk images -- all I know is that I don't know how to get at the
>source code that is apperently stored in "f83x.sou".
>	How would a "disk image" be stored?  How would I know
>that that is what it really is?  And does anybody think they
>might be able to translate the files into a more accessible
>form?
>
>-- 
>Virtually,
>
>Bruce R. McFarling, Newcastle, NSW
>ecbm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
>
>

A disk image is a file that is a copy of a disk.  Essentially, all data
is read off the disk and dumped directly to a file.  No translation
involved, except perhaps re-ordering the blocks on the disk.

For forth source code, i'm guessing it would be in forth block format.

You'd need to find the offset into the image file that the blocks start at,
then it should be a simply matter of reading in 1024 bytes at a time
and dumping them in 64 characters per line format to a plain text file.

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