Re: Sun to Mac to //c and back

[skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Stavros Robert Karatsoridis)]

Joerg Heitkoetter (jh@Germany.EU.net) wrote:

: Folks,

: I want to transfer some old textfiles from CP/M on 5.25"
: disks to my Sun; so I first have to gather the programs for this
: task from the net, as per FAQ:

: (1) get CHAMELEON.SHK a progam that is said to be able to read
:     CP/M disks from ProDOS

: (2) get an archiver which can read the CHAMELON.SHK file;

: Fine; So I get the CHAMELON.SHK file, and find I need nulib,
: for UNIX so I get nulib (from a Linux archive) [which btw is bundled
: with a stdio.h (Wow!) and therefore cannot be compiled out of
: the box -> THROW the stdio.h away! and it compiles fine...]

: I compile nulib and find that my CHAMELON.SHK file contains the
: things I want:

: jazz(jh): ~/tmp/apple2> nulib v CHAMELEON.SHK
:  CHAMELEON.SHK   Created:01-Jul-91  21:52   Mod:01-Jul-91  21:52     Recs:    2

:  Name                  Kind  Typ  Auxtyp Archived         Fmat Size Un-Length
: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
:  CHAM.SYSTEM           File  SYS  $2000  01-Jul-91  21:52  shk  83%     19516
:  CHAMELEON.DOC         File  TXT  $0000  01-Jul-91  21:52  shk  54%     27341

: (have an eye on the "Typ" section) so I extract the files:

: jazz(jh): ~/tmp/apple2> nulib xv CHAMELEON.SHK
: Extracting 'CHAM.SYSTEM' (data)...overwriting...unshrinking (I)...done.
: Extracting 'CHAMELEON.DOC' (data)...overwriting...unshrinking (I)...done.

: Then I start Fetch on my Mac and transfer the files to a ProDOS 720K
: disk; great I think and move the disk over to the //c and voila
: the disk is readable; but--the files have type $00 not SYS and TXT
: as expected; ok I thought, let's bload the files and bsave them with the
: appropriate type; but this doesn't seem to work; it's
: always WRONG FILE TYPE (load, bload, run, exec, whatever);

: So here's the question: How do I change the attribute of a ProDOS
: file from $00 to SYS/TXT/whatever? and What's wrong in the above?

: -- 
: Have fun,	-joke

: Boah ey, bei EUnet gib's jetz' den Interschrott Exploder 3.0 f�r umsonst.
: (Wow, EUnet now offers the fine Microsoft Explorer 3.0 for free download.)

Well, I don't know about the ".DOC" file, which you should be able to read
on the UNIX box or the Mac. As for the other program, here is a work-around:

Get into ProDOS BASIC

Insert the Chameleon disk, and type

PR#3
CATALOG

Look at the catalog, at the ENDFILE column. Write the number you see there
on the line that contains CHAM.SYSTEM

Then type,

CREATE CHAM2.SYSTEM,TSYS
BLOAD CHAM.SYSTEM,TSYS,A$2000
BSAVE CHAM2.SYSTEM,TSYS,A$2000,Lxxxxx (where xxxxx is the number you got from

the ENDFILE part of the catalog.


To run the program, you should be able to type

-CHAM2.SYSTEM


Hope this helps

Stavros