From: seafox@gypsyheir.com   
      
   "Knut"  wrote in message   
   news:CaudnY1t-PP0o7HXRVnzvQA@telenor.com...   
   > 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   
   >   
   > Knut   
      
   I have the original disk images for the files as well, so tht might be a   
   better place. After all, spliiting out each file for a disk image  might   
   have been rough on the file headers.   
      
   I have, in total, about 22 disks of things. What would be great is a program   
   that would handle the conversion without having to go into a TRSDOS based   
   environment. I know that Tandy had one like this for converting data files   
   back when they were phasing out the TRS-80 lines that would drop data files   
   into an IBM image. I didn't pick it up then because i couldn't spare the $80   
   and because it wouldn't convert any basic programs, just data, and I do have   
   some programs written in basic that I'd like to convert at some point.   
      
   Unfortunately I don't have a centralized place where I can upload a file or   
   group of files for people to look at and work with, so it'll have to be   
   individual sends.   
      
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