Re: copying pascal disks how?

[The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov>]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:18:06 -0600, mr. brad wrote:

> ok...just something to keep in mind...for when i get to this stuff...
> 
> i have a version of copy 2 plus 4.3 that prob will work...someone also said
> a straight copy with locksmith will work

	Yes they should both be fine (from what I remember).

> i guess  i'll try it and send it out to the people see if they can see the
> copy

	If you can see the copy then they should be able to as well.

> is there a util disk for me to boot in order to look at a pascal disk? or
> should the old ver of copy 2 plus catalog it?

	Depends. If your disks are on the Apple Pascal file system then you need
the boot disk. If the disks are ProDOS then you should be able to see
what's there with ProDOS. Copy2Plus should be able to see the files too. I
wrote a ProDOS program a while back to copy files from Apple Pascal to
ProDOS (everything is the same except the blocks are reversed). I don't
know if I even finished it or if I did finish it, did I post it...

> just want to see if anything is actually on these disks
> 
> as far a the sider hd's that is another problem i can look at later maybe
> the sider utils have something to catalog them with

	That's probably the best solution unless someone comes up with another
solution.

> brad

				Later
				Mike

> "The Wizard of Oz" <wizard@emeraldcity.gov> wrote in message
> pan.2005.12.26.22.08.01.363909@emeraldcity.gov">news:pan.2005.12.26.22.08.01.363909@emeraldcity.gov...
>> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 02:09:53 -0600, mr. brad wrote:
>>
>> > on those digicard disks i have side 2 of one that is pascal utils
>> >
>> > i also have sider hd disks that are pascal utils
>> >
>> > not sure how to copy them will a straight copy A type copy work
> ie...regular
>> > copy with copy 2 plus?
>> >
>> > or if i just bit copy the whole thing 1 track at a time?
>> >
>> > or something else...i also have partitions on various siders that prob
>> > should be archived..so how do i copy these pascal partitions
>> >
>> > anyway figured i'd ask....not like i can test them afterwards i don't
> think
>> > (don't know pascal stuff)
>> >
>> > brad
>>
>> OK, we have one of two situations to deal with. Either you are dealing
>> with some software using the "Apple Pascal" file system (in which case
>> you should be able to copy the disks with an older version of Copy][Plus
>> - the newer ones don't handle the "Apple Pascal" file system). Or you are
>> dealing with a ProDOS file system with a different version of Pascal (you
>> should be able to use any ProDOS based disk copy program).
>>
>> In terms of getting stuff of the hard drives, I'm only guessing. It's
>> more likely you have a ProDOS file system. In this case a file copy
>> program should do. There is a remote possibility you have the other file
>> system on the hard drive. In this case I have no idea how to help.
>>
>> Later
>> Mike
>>
>>