Re: Archive of comp.binaries.apple2

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Email conversation I had with Tony Diaz.....

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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:45:52 -0400
From: "D. Finnigan" <dog_cow@macgui.com>
To: Tony Diaz <tdiaz@apple2.org>
Subject: Re: Archive of comp.binaries.apple2
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On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:49:02 -0700, Tony Diaz <tdiaz@apple2.org> wrote:
> I started this hairbrained project of converting it all back to proper
> files as I seemed to have the uncanny ability to pick three or four
> archives that each were corrupted.
> 
> So I dropped them all on a decompressor and seems that 5 were bad.
> 
> Anyhow, seeing that they are all binSCII, 6300+ files, of which 2/3rds
> may be legit archives and the rest are text messages...
> 
> I want to post it in a presentable format which I'm trying to work out
> exactly what that would be, still.
> 
> No way in hell am I'm going to subject myself to CiderPress's wickedly
> whacked UI 6300 times. 3 times is too many.
> 
> ..thinking of creating a BinSCII decoder script so that they could
> just be done in shell. If the file has nothing relevant in it, skip
> it. If not, process it. Since they are in sequential order it should
> be the next file has the continuation of the last. Then the result
> should be a directory full of messages named in the sequence and a
> bunch of .shk files.
> 

If you send me the archives, then I can write a script. I am sufficiently
knowledgeable in PHP such that if I can get the specs for BinSCII, then I
can write a script to parse them. I have already written a script in PHP
which reads the catalogs off of DOS 3.3 and ProDOS disks and outputs the
catalog formatted exactly as it looks on a real Apple II.

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My offer is still open.