From: grinder@no.spam.maam.com   
      
   Knut wrote:   
   > Grinder wrote:   
   >> 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...   
   >   
   > Thay are created with TRSDOS1.3 which is very incompatible with almost   
   > anything else... 4 of the disk I got are OK so I extracted 4 files for   
   > him. They are indeed DMK type images.   
   >   
   > I'm not sure if export tools work for TRSDOS1.3 so I used LDOS' CONV   
   > command to get the files over to LDOS and then exported them 'CONV :1 :0   
   > (VIS)' then Y for it to convert the file. I also use XVI32, a pc   
   > hexeditor, to substitute CR to CRLF so the files can be read by a pc   
   > editor. I sent both the straight file and the pc readable one.   
   >   
   > The bad disk images didn't read even with TRSDOS1.3   
      
   Rick, if you're watching, send me the images that Knut couldn't get   
   read.  Knut: was one of the bad images named SWORDS.DSK?   
      
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