Re: Help transferring files?

[Cyrus Roton <croton@ridgecrest.ca.us>]

On 16 Nov 1995, Vicky Wilks wrote:

> Hi all. Apologies if this isn't the most appropriate one for this 
> posting, but it is definitely the only choice from the ones we get 
> on our news server here!
> 
> Basically the problem is that my Dad has an old (approx. 11 years he 
> thinks) Apple IIe at work, with some data files on it that are "in some 
> sort of Pascal format". I'm not sure what he means by this last - are 
> Pascal-written files inherently different from plain text?
>
Pascal is a disk operating system, as are DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. Generally, 
one operating system does not read the disks created by a different 
operating system, though some software can get around that. Also, the 
Pascal files in question may not be text files, but may be in some 
special format, readable only by the program which created them.
 
If the files are from PFS WRITE and PFS FILE, you may be partly in luck. 
There is a program, called PFS.CONVERT, which will convert the files from 
PASCAL to (I think) ProDOS. There are two other programs which will 
convert the ProDOS PFS files to ASCII text. I have them but have not 
tested them.

I expect there may still be some work in it, but that might be a start.


Cyrus Roton   croton@ridgecrest.ca.us
Ridgecrest Apple User Group