Re: Transferring old Pascal AppleII file to Apple DOS or ProDos

[adrianw@ee.adfa.oz.au (Adrian Whichello)]

ISCA AppleII Librarian <apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu> wrote:

> From article <7jgfip$si0$1@pale-rider.INS.CWRU.Edu>
> by fl332@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John L. Graham):
> > 
> > The only way I know of getting data off of a Pascal volume is to use
> > an Apple IIGS with the Pascal FST installed. That way you can read from\
> > the Pascal volume and copy over to a ProDOS (or other) volume.
> > 
> 
> I believe another way is to use the ProDOS pgm CHAMELEON, to convert a
> file from Pascal to ProDOS file.  It is available on many ftp sites
> including ground.ecn.uiowa.edu in the apple8/Pgms and apple8/Utils folders
> as well as in the Mirrors/caltech, ms.uky, and umich folders.
> 
>   --Steve

I've found the "Universal File Converter" program to be more convenient
than Chameleon, mainly because it allows wildcards so you don't have to
type every filename if you're copying a lot of files. It's buried
somewhere on Asimov, either UniversalFileConverter.dsk or simply
ufc.dsk. I once managed to get in touch with the author (Gary
Charpentier, GaryC38047@aol.com) about getting the source code (which
seemed to be written in Apple Pascal 1.2) but nothing ever happened.
Apparently Quality Software was distributing it and released the source
code, but went bankrupt (was this the same Quality Software that had the
rights to Word Perfect IIgs?).

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