Re: Weird file types -how to use them

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Ernest wrote:

>"Stephen Mitchell" <ssmitch@erols.com> wrote in message
>news:bhh7kr$uo$1@bob.news.rcn.net...
>> Carson Wilson's CFX.EXE, which is fairly widely available on the web, runs
>> under MSDOS or in a DOS window (I'm using it on Pentium III running
>Windows
>> XP) and will uncompress squeezed (*.?Q?) files as well as crunched (*.?Z?)
>> files and will also extract compressed or uncompressed files from a
>library
>> (*.LBR) file.  It's a must-have tool for dealing with CP/M files.
>
>The problem with using that on these disks is that they are on Apple II
>formatted disks, which cannot be read by a PC floppy drive.
>
>Still, I think that I will download your CFX file anyway to use for other
>CPM files.

If you have access to a Windows platform, you might want to try
Andy McFadden's CiderPress.  It is able to manipulate disk images
of Apple CP/M disks, extracting or adding files to/from the PC file
system.  You can then ADT the modified image to an Apple II.

-michael

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