[Coco] Disk to PC

[John Donaldson]

Robert,
   Don't forget that PORT.exe ONLY works with Disk Basic. It does not 
work with
OS9 Disks.

John Donaldson

Robert Emery wrote:

>>I would like to transfer the documents to PC-compatible text files -- BASIC
>>program listings, assembler listings, articles, etc. How do I do this?
>>
>>The emulators I have may be too old. WinTRS80 from March 1997 doesn't even
>>read the virtual disks. David Keil's emulator from August 1999 doesn't read
>>the files, either. Only Jeff Vavasour's one does, from February 1997, but
>>it doesn't seem to have any conversion features.
>>    
>>
>
>PORT.EXE is the Vavasour tool to transfer files between file systems.
>
>CoCo to PC is pretty painless... file attributes are read from the directory
>and used to set proper settings. Select the floppy as the CoCo drive, then
>select a PC directory as the target. Each file you double-click on the CoCo
>disk will be transferred to the PC folder in the appropriate format.
>
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>
>>How can I send the output to a plain vanilla PC ASCII file? And even
>>better, how can I do a *batch* conversion of BASIC programs, assembler
>>listings, and articles without loading each and every one (100+ disks, two
>>sides, with 5-20 files on each)?
>>    
>>
>
>Converting Basic to ASCII is the only thing that you should have to worry
>about... LOAD then SAVE"filename",A
>
>This would be tricky to automate, probably require an ML program using the
>built-in ROM routines. Currently beyond my programming abilities.
>
>If you put all the basic programs on public dsk images, some of us could pitch
>in on converting to ascii.
>
>BTW Dennis, it sounds like you could use a GUI disk browsing tool. Color FOG
>will let you point and click and select multiple files to Copy. (requires
>CoCo3, real or emulated)
>
>Bob
>
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