Re: Pascal 400kb Disk

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

In article <KAN9a.407019$Yo4.13275281@news1.calgary.shaw.ca>, Mike Pfaiffer
<mike@digitalcivilization.ca> writes:

>J. Vernet wrote:
>> "Willi Kusche" <willi@wilserv.com> a �crit dans le message de news:
>> 3d7aa99a.0303052358.52d148c0@posting.google.com...
>> 
>>>>There was a Pascal 1.4?
>>>>
>>>>-uso.
>>>
>>>    The last version of Apple Pascal (AKA UCSD Pascal for the Apple)
>>>was version 1.3.  It had support for 800K 3.5 inch diskettes.
>>>
>>>    I have some 400K Apple Pascal disks but they are for the Mac.
>>>
>>>    Is the problem disk readable by a sector editor?
>> 
>> 
>> No. We try with Copy II Plus 9.1, on the IIgs. Nothing (cannot read the
>> disk).
>
>	Good program. If I recall correctly it doesn't have the capability of 
>reading Pascal disks. You'll have to go back to an earlier version. 
>Possible one under DOS 3.3. from there you can use 9.1 to copy it from a 
>DOS floppy to Prodos.
>
>	FYI, I read somewhere the block structure is very similar to Prodos 
>except one feature reversed an order. I managed to use a disk reader I 
>had written a long time ago to verify the data on the floppy. So you 
>*might* be able to write a program to extract files using low level 
>Prodos routines.
>
>	As I said, it was a LONG time ago.

Doesn't Chameleon read Pascal?  If so, it can copy the files to just
about anything.

-michael

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