[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