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Re: Extracting files from .DSK



In article <MSGOa.41$dk4.2736@typhoon.sonic.net>,
Andy McFadden  <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote:
>>                                                    This of course
>> reflects my own needs: I often needed to figure out on which of a
>> large number of .DSK images a particular file resided, but I never
>> felt any need to convert these files en masse to ASCII files on the
>> host file system.
> 
> You may want to give MDC (Multi-Disk Catalog, part of CiderPress) a try.
> It'll generate listings for all disk images in a directory hierarchy
> (DOS, ProDOS, CP/M, Pascal, RDOS), and automatically unpacks .gz files.
> I wrote it for a similar reason: finding stuff on hundreds of floppy and
> hard drive images can be a pain.  Letting it run through a local copy of
> an FTP archive is kind of fun.
> 
> Unlike the main CP app, MDC doesn't require registration (it's one of those
> "free bonus just for trying" things, so it doesn't expire).
 
Thanks for pointing this out -- I'll give it a try.
 
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