Re: Extracting files from .DSK

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <i8COa.9134$%3.412893@typhoon.sonic.net>,
Andy McFadden  <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote:
>>>> I have the need to extract files from a .DSK image to Linux fs, but I don't
>>>> find around a tool for this. Also I need to detokenize Applesoft & Integer
>>>> Basic files.
> 
>> This is getting amusing..... almost....
>>  
>> He wanted to do it on Linux.  So why are you pointing at software not
>> running on Linux, while you keep silent of a piece of software which
>> actually does the job on Linux: the freeware FID utility from my
>> Apple II page:
> 
> People who have written a piece of software tend to believe that theirs
> is the most useful.
 
Yep ... and that's why so many wheels are re-invented.....
 
> The way I get Apple II files onto Linux is via a Samba server on my Red
> Hat box, so I can get files "to Linux fs" without needing to run software
> under Linux.  Besides, there's nothing especially radical about the way
> CP was written, so it should work fine in a Windows emulator like WINE.
> 
> The CiderPress point and click interface is more convenient for most
> people than a CLI, especially when you want to convert a large set of
> files from multiple disks.  (Open the disk, click in the header to sort
> by file type, shift-click to select the file range, and use the "extract"
> feature to extract and convert all files.)
 
You can do that with a CLI interface too, by using wildcards.  As a
matter of fact, FID will provide you with a directory listing of as
many .DSK archives as you like, with one command.  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.  However, FID at least allows you to convert
several files in one command from one single .DSK image.
 
> A2Fid is limited to DOS 3.3 disks,
 
True -- I'll probably add CP/M disks some time in the future though.
I probably won't bother with Pascal or ProDOS disks since I had very
few of these disks myself and thus had little need to dabble with
such disk images.
 
> although since the original poster mentioned Integer BASIC there's
> a fair chance it's what he wanted.
 
:-) ...yep, he did.  And FID definitely does fit his needs the best:
as an experienced Linux user I don't think he's afraid of a command
line.  And his disk images was for DOS 3.3, and he wanted to do it
on Linux instead of messing with emulators for other OS'es.
 
If a novice wanted to transfer files from disk images, using either
Mac or Windows, I would point him to more appropriate software than
FID....
 
> Besides, A2FID.C is already mentioned in the CiderPress credits. :-)  (If
> you ever find yourself running Windows, go to Help-->About, then Credits).
 
I tend to avoid software with a limited evaluation period... :-) ....
but thanks for the acknowledgement anyway....  And yes, I run Windows
quite often.  But I do enjoy cross platform portability, so I can
perform the same operation in the same way on different platforms, as
much as possible.
 
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