Date   : Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:12:18 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: Transferring BBC floppies to PC

Mike Tomlinson writes:
>
>I received the following email recently - can we cover what is and isn't
>possible in terms of getting BBC discs transferred to a PC for this chap
>(he is subscribed to this list)?
>
>In particular, (for me), is there any software available for the Beeb
>which will read a disc sector-by-sector and squirt it down to a PC,
>creating an image file over a serial link?
>
>Sorry to cover old ground again.

XFer in C can do this (transfer disc images). I've had varying reports of
success with it; I suspect some more work needs to be done on driving the
Win32 serial system properly. It'll also work on Linux (last tested on SuSE
6.2, I'm up to 6.4 now). I've also had requests to do sector-by-sector
checksum and resend, which I'll get around to sometime in the future, if
nobody submits a patch before I eventually get around to it (hint!).

Available with full source at:

       ftp://ftp.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/BBC/xferc.zip
       ftp://ftp.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/BBC/xferc.tar.gz

Anyone want to take on a project I probably won't get time for? Write a
serial filing system back-end, so the Beeb can use files directly from a
Win32/Linux box. It would make editing large assembler sources so much nicer,
to do it in Emacs :-)

a.
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