Date : Mon, 15 May 2000 18:00:27 +0200
From : "Mark Usher" <mu.list@...>
Subject: Re: BBC + Torch
Or as his beeb has died, he could read the disks using FDC, use the program
in an emulator to extract the files from CPM as you say, writing them to a
DFS in the emulator, and then read the DFS disk with BBC Explorer and
extract the files.
As the perfect writer files are in plain ASCII, you can then load the
extracted files into any text editor or word processor.
Hey presto, problem solved.
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bbc-micro@...
> [mailto:owner-bbc-micro@...]On Behalf Of Jonathan Graham
> Harston
> Sent: 15 May 2000 12:11
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] 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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>
> Scotty:Captain, we cannae reference it!
> Kirk: Analysis, Mr. Spock?
> Spock: Captain, it doesn't appear in the symbol table.
> Kirk: Then it's of external origin?
> Spock: Affirmative.
> Kirk: Mr. Sulu, go to pass two.
> Sulu: Aye aye, sir, going to pass two.
>
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