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- From: tdarcos@digex.digex.com (Paul Robinson)
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- Subject: Re: Pascal Code Needed to read disk byte by byte
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 13:45:56 GMT
- Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
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- miket@exucom.com (Michael Teper) writes:
- :
- : I need Pascal or ASM (or both) code that would allow me read data off of a
- : disk (PC environment) without any concern for the data or data format or
- : structure on the disk.
- :
- : To make this simpler - I need to read some data put on a disk by an Apple
- : non-standard program. My intentions are to read whatever it stored on
- : Apple disks using the PC and then hopefully make some sence out of it
- : knowing the contents of the data.
- :
-
- While you can do direct disk I/O on an IBM, you can't read an Apple disk
- directly; the hardware won't let you. In simple terms, the Apple II disk
- drive wrote a "signature" field on the start of each sector, that
- particular byte doesn't occur on the disk except at the start of a sector,
- and bytes are encoded down to fit into a special sequence, something
- similar to the way UUENCODE changes two bytes into three by carrying bits
- over.
-
-