Date : Mon, 15 May 2000 11:11:04 +0100
From : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: BBC + Torch
"Tony" <oldfart@...> wrote:
> I used this in business and the software was called Perfect Filer,
> Perfect Writer and Perfect Calc I think.
> Hope this strikes a chord somewhere, the information I saved was about
> shipwrecks and was gleaned from months of work looking through the old
> records at Greenwich Maritime Museum where I held a readers ticket for
> research, now retired on my yacht here in the Caribbean I had started
> transferring the Information by hand to a program under Dos 6.0 called
> Cardfile when the Beeb up and died on me since when up until now I had
> neglected the project however it seems sad to lose all this work which
> would be of great interest to divers.
CPMFiler at http://www.mdfsnet.f9.co.uk/Software/CPM/CPMFilr.zip can
access Acorn and Torch CPM disks allowing you to extract files from them.
It won't help Tony as his Beeb has died, but if he can get hold of a
working Beeb, or somebody else can do the transfers for him, it will get
the files off the CPN disks and onto another BBC disk, such as DFS or
ADFS.
Then you can transfer the files to a DOS disk to get them onto the PC.
Using a Master or BBC with 1770 and DOSFS or an Arc you can do it
directly. Otherwise, there are PC programs that allow you to access BBC
disks. Names like BeebDos and BBCExplore spring to mind.
Once the data is on the PC, you should be able to import the text files
directly into a PC word processor. You'll have some editing to do to
rebuild the formatting.
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