Re: Looking for info on ProDOS disk format...

[Rob Greene <anonymous>]

chris@invalid.com (CHRIS MORSE) wrote in news:3dd3f7b2.246116136
@news.dsl.net:

> 
> I'm hoping to find info on the ProDOS disk format...
> 
> I'd like to write my own program that catalogs the contents of .DSK
> images..  I found at http://home.tiscali.se/pausch/apple2/ a couple
> programs (FID and a2tools) that work with DOS 3.3 disks, but I have
> yet to find any info for ProDOS disks.
> 
> Or if anyone knows of a freeware program with source code that handles
> ProDOS disks, that would be cool too.
> 
> Silly me- I used to have the book Beneath Apple DOS and Beneath Apple
> ProDOS, but don't have them anymore.  Though, I'd be willing to buy
> them off eBay if the price wasn't grossly high...
> 
> On another note, does anyone know if there is an archive of
> comp.sys.apple2.* articles?  I think google groups has a half-decent
> history, but it doesn't let you access articles from too far back (so
> it seems.)  It would be nice to read some old articles, as I'm sure a
> lot of the info I am looking for could be found in such an archive..
> 
> Thanks!
> // CHRIS
 
Heh, same here, but I *did* keep my books!  I've actually started, and 
you may want to look at what I've done so far -
    	http://webpages.charter.net/greener/AppleCommander/

It's in Java, so you'll need the Java libraries and SWT libraries.  Other 
than that, it's all GUI, so it may be of interest.

As far as the code goes, I haven't released any of my stuff with source 
since nobody has expressed an interest.  If you do Java and are 
interested, let me know (email is on the web site).  The disk and file 
model is completely separated from the GUI, so it should be quite re-
usable.
-Rob