lwv27@CAS.BITNET (08/28/90)
Well, now we have at least one or two utilities to read Mac 400 and 800 k disks (see the archive sites if you dont have at least one of these). Does writing one of those make writing a similar utility for a different format easier? The formats that I have in mind are Sun SPARCstation 1 tar 3.5" (or is that Unix tar or cpio format?) as well as MS-DOS format. The goal ultimately would be to have a utility which would look at a floppy and tell you : This is CP/M, MS/DOS, OS/2, Unix, Mac 400, Mac 800, Mac 1.4, or whatever, and THEN let you extract info from it. Extending it to write some or all of these would be great as well. Then a TRUE file exchange program would be in place. If the program was designed to easily extend, and the format for the modules and data files for user provided extensions could be provided, then folks with Atari, Amiga, etc. could also write modules and we could get graphics, sounds, etc. from ALL of those guys! Boy, wouldnt THAT be neat? -- Larry W. Virden Business: UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 Proline: lvirden@pro-tcc.cts.com America Online: lvirden CIS: [75046,606]