Re: atari ST diskettes on PC

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In message <c1mtrj$rbm$1@news.tiscali.fr>, philippe.cousson1@libertysurf.fr said:

>No, what I mean is how to get files, mainly texts, from diskettes first used
>on an Atari ST, for use on a Windows PC.

Hi Philippe!

That rather depends what format the text files are in! If it's 
pure ASCII, there should be no problem (once you use makedisk if 
your PC won't read the Atari-formatted disks - this depends on how 
old the Atari is, or rather what TOS it used; 1.4-on should be PC 
compatible. Even then, problems can arise if the disk was 
formatted non-standard, with more sectors or tracks, though I 
think makedisk can handle that.)

However, if the files are in a proprietary format, there could be 
problems. 1st WOrd/1st WOrd Plus for instance used the ASCII 
characters 29 and 30 for stretch spaces, and 2-letter escape codes 
for text styles. The whole document was prefixed with four lines 
of numbers and a ruler, such as 
066000200000000132000004000000000
10
2-#-0
F0110000001
9[...................................................]0110

(some of these characters are unlikely to survive the ISO 
conversion of the mailer, I fear).

Anyway, the preamble can be cut off in an editor such as notepad, 
and you should be able to use the find and replace function to put 
proper spaces in.

A similar thing applies if the text was written by some other 
application.

Regards, /Peter/

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