From: grinder@no.spam.maam.com   
      
   Rick Massey wrote:   
   > I've been having a fairly non-stop headache getting my files off some Model   
   > III disk images.   
   >   
   > First, the functional details. I have several files that I either created in   
   > basic a while back or created as text files in Excaliber's program Edit.   
   > I've been trying to get these files off the images created by Readdisk, but   
   > I have been unable to find an emulator that works well enough to run   
   > programs on an XP system, has the capability to print files or copy data to   
   > the clipboard, and reads things in a native enough format that a screen   
   > reader can parse the output. (I lost my sight almost six years ago and have   
   > been unable to locate it in the intervening time)   
   >   
   > So, I either need to find an emulator that will print or copy to the   
   > clipboard on a Windows XP system while letting my screen reader access the   
   > info, or I need to find a kind soul that will  will help me out with getting   
   > these files translated to txt documents. Edit is quite intuitive once you   
   > use Clear+O to access the help menu, plus it's a plain text format so it   
   > should probably open up in any text editor or word processor. I've tried   
   > pulling data from the raw disk images, and I get some success with it, but   
   > things are rather hashed. I spent five hours recently cleaning up one file   
   > this way, and even then some of the text of the file was junked so that I   
   > had to get a sighted person to look at the file in an emulator )that I can't   
   > access and won't print) to get the missing text out.   
   >   
   > Any assistance/advice would be greatly appreciated.   
      
   Rick sent me an example, and it appears to be a DMK disk image.  I'm an   
   interested novice, so if someone knows of an "out of the box" solution   
   you can probably get him a quick answer.   
      
   More later...   
      
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