Re: Print DIR list to ProDOS disk?

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

tturner@ecn.ab.ca asked:

>--> Title sez it all, really: I'm going through some diskettes for
>    someone and they need to know what the file names are (obviously
>    they can't read the diskettes).  I can _SEE_ the listing, but I've
>    not found anything off-hand that can then print this listing to
>    diskette (as a TXT-file), so I can send it to them so they, too
>    can see what's on those diskettes.  Anyone know any 8-bit A2
>    software tool that can do this?  Much appreciated...

David Empson "published" an Applesoft program to do exactly this
less than a year ago.  Check Google Groups for it (or maybe he has
it at hand and will re-post it).

The key is that ProDOS is happy to OPEN a file of type DIR, and
it can then be read like any other file.

-michael

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