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- UCSD
-
- a quick hack to recover files on 3.5” Apple Pascal disks for Apple II machines.
-
- I still occationally need to move files (especially old source texts) from
- 3.5” disks formatted with the UCSD Pascal system on an Apple II. To do this
- I would have to first move the files to a ProDOS disk, using a ProDOS program,
- and then move them to a Macintosh disk. To do this you need special hardware,
- making getting at the files a bit difficult.
- If you also occationally need to access files on 3.5” UCSD disks read on.
-
- This small program will read one or more UCSD 3.5” disks, and transfer all
- files on the disks to a Macintosh disk.
-
- The files I need are text and data files, so I have chosen to process the
- files in two different ways, depending on extension:
- For .TEXT files the program will put the 1K header into a resource in the
- resource fork, and the text part of the file into the data fork. The DLE
- codes are extended, and NULL’s left over from editors like ASE are removed.
- For all other files they are treated as .DATA files where the files
- contents are copied to the data fork of Macintosh files, without any processing.
-
- The way the program works is very simple:
- - start the program by double-clicking it.
- - put in the UCSD disk you want to process.
- the program will now copy all files on the disk onto your Macintosh
- harddisk. The files will be placed in a folder with the same name as the
- UCSD disk, placed in the same folder as the program.
- when all files has been processed, or if the program cannot create a new
- folder for the files (no room, folder exists already, etc.), the UCSD disk
- will be ejected.
- - when all disks have been processed, quit the program from the file menu.
-
- As I made the program to solve a specific problem I had, I didn’t spend much time
- in putting in user-friendly features. The program just does what I want it to - and
- that’s it.
- If you are one of the few people that can use this program, and need a specific
- feature (such as selection of files to transfer, special processing of some file
- types, etc.), send me an email, and I may put it in - or just send you the source
- so you can put it in yourself ;-)
-
- If you find a use of this program, please send me a short email anyway, and I may
- send you a note if the progam gets developed further.
-
- I have tested this program on a variety of 68K machines, running systems 7.0 to 7.5.
- The program will not run with older system versions.
- I have not tested the program on PowerPC machines, but I can see no reason why it
- shouldn’t work.
-
- The use of this program is free. You can use it to convert as many files you like on
- as many machines you like. The program can be given away for free to anyone who wants
- it, as long as this document follows it unchanged.
- The program may be uploaded to public file repositories, such as FTP servers, bulletin
- board systems, etc, but may not be included as part of a sale of hard- or software.
- The program is free, and must not be sold for profit, the only exception is that the
- program and documentation can be included in collections of public domain and shareware
- programmes, be that on diskettes, CD-ROM or any other suitable media.
- If the program is included in such a collection, the author, Bo Holst-Christensen, must
- be notified about this, either by electronic or normal mail.
-
- Author:
-
- Bo Holst-Christensen
- Cutisan Laboratorium A/S
- Nordrupvej 88-90
- DK-4100 Ringsted
- Denmark
-
- email:
- holst@pegasus.ping.dk
- holst@login.dknet.dk
-