Re: Finding Auxiliary File Types

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article <45954275.2261.usenet_csa2@a2central.com>,
 "Brian Haskin" <brian.haskin@a2central.com.remove-11iy-this> wrote:

> I am trying to recover some files from a IIe that were written by a 
> person who recently passed away. The family has no idea how to use 
> the IIe, and they threw out all the software (a travesty!) before 
> they were referred to me.
> 
> I've obtained a ProDOS disk, and ProDOS Filer reports the filetype as 
> $16. This page <http://web.pdx.edu/%7Eheiss/technotes/ftyp/ft.about.html>
> tells me that this particular file type belongs to PFS, which is 
> apparently an office/productivity suite. This file type has multiple 
> auxiliary types, one for each document type (word processor, 
> spreadsheet, etc.). I need to find the auxiliary type of the files to 
> determine exactly which PFS program to purchase (assuming I can find 
> it for sale somewhere), and I haven't been able to find a way to do it.
> 
> So, my question is this: how can I find the auxiliary type of a file 
> on a Apple IIe?  If there's a way to do it with just ProDOS or 
> Applesoft BASIC, that would be preferred, but I'm open to trying just 
> about anything.
> 
> Many thanks!
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<http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/Resources/ProDOS.File.
Types.v2.0.txt>
...
16 PFS             PFS Document
16 PFS   0001      PFS File
16 PFS   0002      PFS Word Processing
16 PFS   0003      PFS Graphing
16 PFS   0004      PFS Planning
16 PFS   0016      PFS Internal Data
...
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John Matthews
jmatthews at wright dot edu
www dot wright dot edu/~john.matthews/