Re: Trouble reading a Pascal diskette

[Matt Jenkins <mdj@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

> Apple II System Utilities (the ProDOS utility suite that came with
> recent Apple II ProDOS system disks) lets you catalog a Pascal volume.
> I don't remember whether it can copy files from a Pascal volume.

It can do copying, and this applies both to the old version which shipped
on a disk by itself with the //c and later beige //e's and the more recent
(and vastly superior since it's not written in BASIC) one on the Apple II
System Disk as shipped with platinum IIe's. The one you can't use is the
filer from the old ProDOS Users Disk.

I don't remember whether it does file conversion or not. I think if you
copy a ProDOS TXT file to Pascal it'll convert it to UCSD text format, but
I'm not sure that this works in the inverse.

Either way the programs will get the files off OK.

Anyone ever discover/write a Pascal program for reading ProDOS volumes?
I have one somewhere for DOS 3.3, but not ProDOS.

Cheers,

Matt 


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