Subject: Re: extracting files with viewdisk
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From: pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)
Newsgroups: comp.emulators.apple2
Date: 23 Jul 2000 11:41:28 +0200
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In article <397A24E3.3873@fastpointcom.com>,
 <gweinberg@fastpointcom.com> wrote:
 
> I'm trying to use a program called viewdisk to extract files
> from a .dsk to a Win95 box,  I've been having some problems,  I
> was wondering if anyone could help.
> 
> 1) when I do a catalog,  a lot of the files seem to have spaces in the
> names.  Any ideas how I can export these guys?  quoting the name
> doesn't seem to work.
 
Win95 supports file names with embedded spaces, so there should be no
problem really.
 
> 2) Are there better tools or maybe a newer verion available?  My
> viewdisk is from 1994,  so of course it doesn't support "long"
> filenames on the DOS side
 
Well, that explains your problem....
 
> (not a big deal,  since I can just rename them
> later,  but I'd rather have a 32 bit version of the program
> in any case).
 
You could always download FID.C from
 
    http://hotel04.ausys.se/pausch/apple2
 
and compile it on your favourite ANSI C compiler.  Its user interface
is unremarkable (a text mode "dump terminal" interface), however the
program is portable to any system with an ANSI C compiler.  And you
also have the source available, i.e. you can modify the program if
you want it to be different.
 
Files viewed or extracted with FID.C are all converted to ASCII:
bonary files are converted to hex dumps in Apple monitor formats,
text files are converted to ASCII with end-of-lines as they usually
are represented on the host system, and "I" and "A" files are converted
to Basic source in ASCII form (unless the "I" file happens to be an
S_C Assembler source file - in that case it's converted to assembler
source in ASCII form)
 
Good luck!
 
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