Re: Backing up Pascal Disks...

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article <bjer6099h97cuqcolu94ikn9dn4hu1beoa@4ax.com>,
 Chris M <chris@sorry.no.spam.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know how to go about backing up Pascal disks?
> I've got an original/complete boxed copy of Apple Pascal 1.2, and
> (from eBay) I grabbed that "APPLE II PASCAL SOFTWARE - 29 Disks" from
> DynaComp that they keep listing every few days.
> 
> Here's an eBay link:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3088447918&category=3802
> 
> I tried using ADT and it doesn't like the disk format, so it's
> probably not a 16-sector disk or something.
> 
> Anyone know how to back these up?
> 
> Thanks,
> // CHRIS

1) Apple's System Utilities can copy a Pascal volume; I used 
version 3.1 successfully.

2) The Apple II Pascal Filer can clone volumes. I was able to 
make a bootable 3.5" disk by formatting with the Pascal program 
FORMATTER from APPLE3 and using the Pascal Filer to copy the 
files from APPLE1, APPLE2, and APPLE3. Use the Filer's Transfer 
command, eg: to copy all the files from unit 4 to unit 11 
keeping the same names

#4:=,#11:$

3) Rob Greene's cross-platform java tool, AppleCommander, works 
on Pascal disk images. The command-line incantation to examine a 
disk image is:

java -jar ac.jar -l pascal1.dsk

Rob has merged the command-line stuff into the main line at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/applecommander/

John
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