Re: ProDOS driver for linux...?

["josephoswaldgg@hotmail.com" <josephoswald@gmail.com>]

Andy McFadden wrote:
> josephoswaldgg@hotmail.com <josephoswald@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It's not 100% necessary to create a fully-functional file system to
> > mount the ProDOS directory tree in the Linux directory tree.

My phrasing here was unfortunate; obviously you need to have a file
system implementation *in order to* create a directory tree visible to
Linux; that's the whole purpose of the file system. I meant to say that
you can *skip the step* of creating a Linux-visible directory tree, and
instead create a .po image from the disk by simple utilities, then use
a user-land utility on a .po image (analogous to your CiderPress) to
extract useful data from that .po image.

> You can use "dd" to read raw blocks off of a hard drive.  Most emulators
> aren't set up to handle partitioned images though, so to create .PO
> images for an emulator you'd have to extract the partitions.

Good point; I have to plead complete ignorance on how ProDOS/GSOS
created partition tables, and whether they are at all comprehended by
Linux.