swooldri@orion.cf.uci.edu (Steve Wooldridge) (08/14/89)
Earlier, I posted a note inquiring about availability of programs to read CP/M files on an MS-DOS machine. I received several invaluable responses. Now my problem is this: I had one diskette I was trying to read from CP/M and write to MS-DOS format. The package I was using (Xeno-Write) was unable to do this. When using a global search request (*.*) to read all files, it scrolled segments of a file on the screen. I am suspicious that the file was accidentally erased (if not, then the disk is damaged) and that the program was looking for the file address which was not there. Do there exist programs like Norton Utilities for the CP/M operating system? If so, I can look at the file and see if anything can be retrieved. Thanks in advance for any advice which might be rendered. Please respond directly to my internet address (but also feel free to post to the COMP.OS.CPM Usenet board. Steve Wooldridge University of California, Irvine Tel. 714.856.8380
mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis) (08/16/89)
From article <2505@orion.cf.uci.edu>, by swooldri@orion.cf.uci.edu (Steve Wooldridge): .... > Do there exist programs like Norton Utilities for the CP/M operating system? > If so, I can look at the file and see if anything can be retrieved. Check out DU-V80. THis is a PD absolute disk sector editor. I have run it on at least three different machines, and it seems to be very good, as long as you know what you are doing. You need to know the directory layout, and how to read control blocks and such, but it's pretty slick. You can edit in ASCII or hex at a minimum. It won't follow the sector allocation sequence, you have to do that yourself. Simtel20 ought to have it, but I couldn't tell you where it might be. I think it should be available on all CP/M BBS's. Good Luck Marc -- Na khuya mne podpis'? | Internet: cs057@zeus.unl.edu | UUCP: uunet!btni!unocss!mlewis Go for it! | Bitnet: CS057@UNOMA1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
dbraun@cadev4.intel.com (Doug Braun ~) (08/22/89)
Does anyone know if there is a version of the DU-type programs that works with CP/M 3? (Thanks, Bob Haar). The program DUU, which I have used for a long time on CP/M 2.2 crashes on 3.0 because the 3.0 BIOS disk routines handle physical sector sizes larger than 128 bytes directly. Doug Braun Intel Corp CAD 408 765-4279 / decwrl \ | hplabs | -| oliveb |- !intelca!mipos3!cadev4!dbraun | amd | \ qantel /