Re: a2tools for ProDOS (?)

[Rob Greene <greeneratcharterdotnet>]

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in news:nospam-
659D00.14444829082003@clmboh1-nws3.columbus.rr.com:

> ProDOS is fine, but e.g. SYSTEM.APPLE should be 9-Nov-80. The 
> rest ahould be '79 or '80. I'll dig further.

Ahh, I see what you mean. They only -look- like appropriate dates!  
Obviously my date decoding is plain wrong.  In 
com.webcodepro.applecommander.util there is an AppleUtil class.  It's 
just a bunch of static utility methods.  The getPascalDate and 
setPascalDate should be checked... or maybe the PascalFileEntry is wrong 
(24th byte is the date?).

> Sounds good. I'm looking at getopt (or similar) in java and what 
> options to do. Perhaps we (you, Chris and c.s.a.p) have some 
> ideas. For my own purposes (similar to Chris's) I was thinking:
> 
> -l <imagename> (list image, recursive, native format)
> -g <pathname> <imagename> (get file from image)
> -p <sourcepath> <destpath> <imagename> (put file into image)
> -h (help)

Some other ideas would be to delete a file, to create a blank disk 
image, or to convert a file.

My original thought was to create a pseudo-language, but that was 
probably too complex.
 
> I'm only using storage; I don't have eclipse or swt. I stumbled 
> briefly with AppleWorksWordProcessorFileFilter dragging in the 
> whole ui:-) Reading & writing files _looks_ easy:-)

Actually, the GUI shouldn't be an issue - look at the FileFilter 
interface.  Sorry in advance for the butchered code...

public interface FileFilter {
	/**
	 * Process the given FileEntry and return a byte array with 
filtered data.
	 */
	public byte[] filter(FileEntry fileEntry);
	/**
	 * Give suggested file name.
	 */
	public String getSuggestedFileName(FileEntry fileEntry);
}

Create the appropriate FileFilter (ie, 
AppleWorksWordProcessorFileFilter) and then use the filter method to 
export it.  You get a byte array back - and then write it as you 
normally would.  I don't remember the mapping, but I could rummage 
around with it. 

If the GUI is connected, then I screwed up something - one of my design 
decisions was to keep the Apple domain separate from anything GUI-
related.

If you can, I'd encourage you to try Eclipse.  I find it really 
productive.  (I realize it's a "religious" area, so I'll leave it at 
that.)

> John
> ----
> jmatthews at wright dot edu
> www dot wright dot edu/~john.matthews/

I'm really psyched about this!!
-Rob