[Coco] Finding DECB stuff on RTSI

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

There are several sets of DECB disks on RTSI that the contents are unknown
(Well almost).

For example the disks "D01.dsk - D36.dsk":

ftp://www.rtsi.com/RSDOS/incoming/netrunnrs_uploads/disks/

I wrote DECB programs back in the 1980s that allowed me to read my disks one
at a time and write the file names to another disk. Then another DECB
program read the file names on all my disks, sorted and printed a combined
list to my printer.

In locating the Tape to Disk Utility programs just now I did not use that
combined list but I could have. I am sure the Tape to Disk Utility programs
are in this set of .dsk files, or another set perhaps. (I found on my disk,
"TP-DSK", "TAPE2DSK" and "TP - DSK".)

I started thinking about how filename listings of the "D01.dsk - D36.dsk"'s
could be produced on my Laptop and realized that Luis Fernández had already
written the first part of the process for his CoCoDSKUtil program. The
results just need to be written to a Windows text file.

I do not plan in writing any software as I have several powerful database
sorting, formatting and printing programs already that can do the job.

The CSV format to might be the best format to use.

Are there any other Windows users that have their own set of DECB .dsk files
that might be interested?

SHF