[Coco] Q: Convert TW64 BIN to PC TXT?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:55:55 -0600, Torsten Dittel <Torsten at Dittel.info>  
wrote:

>> Is the problem that you don't have a copy of TW-64 anymore?  Because I'm
>> pretty sure you can export it to a plain text file from within TW-64,
>> either on the CoCo or in an emulator.  Not sure how your German
>> characters would translate to ASCII though.  But if they showed up in
>> some form, you could likely just grep them to something useful.
>> [Digging around in the attic for my TW-64 documentation...]
>>
>> There was a separate I/O utility called S.ASC that allowed plain ASCII
>> disk file reads and writes.
>
>
> Cool, thanks, I'll try it out. I found a disk with the contents:
>
> U        BAS 0 B 1
> TW64     BIN 2 B 5
> F            2 B 2
> S        XXX 0 B 2
> S        BIN 0 B 2
> S        ASC 0 B 2
> Z        BIN 2 B 1
>
> I'll try that on an emulator.
>
> Regards,
> Torsten
>
 From what I can remember, S.XXX is the version that actually gets used by  
Telewriter, and you just copy either S.BIN or S.ASC to that file to change  
which way Telewriter will save.
-- 
L. Curtis Boyle