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Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Dave Rawson wrote:
DR> Hopefully within a couple of weeks the purchase will show up and 'll
DR> try and keep folks (if interested) posted on how I do with ecovering
DR> files from 20 year-old floppies.
Please do!
Will do.
If recovery of the text is most important, and there isn't much fancy
formatting or it doesn't matter as much, then you can easily extract
the text from the disk images using CiderPress, for example.
I used to have to massage it a bit to get it up into a BBS. As I recall
it mostly had to do with lfs or eof and maybe something to do with
hi-bit set or some such.
ASCII Express Pro provided some utilities that CH(anged)Form(at) from
Apple to cp/m and back which handled enough of the above that PC-based
sysops stopped screaming at me.
If the Apple ASCII files do contain hi-bit incompatibility (do they?),
I'm not sure how to strip that out with simple search & replace. Is
that possible? Or does that all come out in the wash with Cider Press?
Windows has more good emulators than Linux, so that's a plus.
You would only need to emulate AceWriter if you wanted to use it
to "print" the files to PC text files, preserving some of the
AceWriter formatting.
I don't think any formatting is important other than that which manages
the white space, for lack of a better term, like blank lines separating
paragraphs.
The problem will be doing *anything* 600 times,
Yeah, but I've become very iteratively patient and effective and just
slowly chomp away at most of the major tasks with which I've saddled
myself. It's the only way I get the big things done. This is possibly
one of the most important to me. Time will tell.
which is why I
suggested using an SSC for the fastest possible serial link!
I understand. The Apricorn tops out at 19.2k with handshaking enabled,
so the SSC promises near ten times that. That savings times 600+ is a
very significant savings!
Thanks for the continued suggestions and encouragement.