Re: mtools, specifically mcopy

In article <4509ab26@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Hoff Hoffman <hoff-remove-this@xxxxxx> wrote:


If you're careful, a MOUNT/FOREIGN and a DUMP will allow you to deal with
this. I've certainly spent enough time looking at FAT volumes, and yes you
can see the bits inside the files once you get past the FATs and other such.

....

For grins, I might suggest seeing of a Linux dd could be brought to bear
here, and just load the sequential file absolutely directly out onto the
removable media. No disk volume structures at all, etc., just the blocks of
the file containing the PAKs.

Hmm. I see that OS X has dd, and it is also available in various
incarnations for Windows.

Not having a floppy here except for on my VMS system, I did try the
following:

$ mount/for dva0: ! floppy
$ copy license.com dva0: ! license.com has just VMS, DECW, UCX licenses
$ dump dva0: /output=dva0.txt /blocks=(start:0,end:2) /width=80

and it shouldn't be much of a job to munge that into a text file.

--
Paul Sture
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