Re: What do I use to unpack "89RAMIS/8/1/88<143>#E613"

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Barry Davis <bdavis1943@hotmail.com> wrote:
> About 15 years ago I had an enhanced 128K //e.  I packed most of my data
> files before I sold my machine and moved on to an IBM.  The program I used
> would append to the name an example like the following: /8/1/88<143>#E613.
> When I do a catalog, I get the following for example"B 143
> 89RAMIS/8/1/88<143>#E613."   On one of the disks, I penciled in "Packed with
> dd 2.5."  I am now back in the Apple II business for old time sake and
> trying to revive my files.  Does anyone know what this is packed with and
> where I could find the program to unpack it?  Thanks for any help.  Barry


Sounds like a later version of DDD.  The "<143>" is the number of 256-byte
chunks, and the "#E613" is a checksum that later versions added.

If you have it on a disk image on your PC, CiderPress should be able to
unpack it.  Alternatively, find a copy of DDD on a disk image and run it
in an Apple II emulator.  If it's on a physical floppy in a real Apple II,
convert the DDD disk image to a real floppy and use that.

Make sure you use DDD v2.1 or later; v2.0 had a bug.  Whatever you do,
DO NOT copy the DDD file off of the DOS 3.3 disk it's on.  The file is
stored in a slightly non-standard way, owing largely to the 64K length
limit of DOS 'B' files, and it'll get screwed up if you try to extract
it or move it to ProDOS.

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