The recent talk about two old Displaywriters being up for grabs got
me to thinking about something that I've left hanging out in my
"things to do" list.
Does anyone know the internals of the Displaywriter file format? The
disks themselves are SSSD with the first track being 26x128 byte
sectors and the remainder 15x256. The encoding is EBCDIC for the
text, obviously, but the structure has eluded me (or I've been just
too lazy to figure it out). My notes from years ago say that it
appears to be a two-level sort of affair, with the top level
referring to documents and the second referring to pages within the
documents--and then I became distracted and that's where my notes
leave off.
Does anyone know anything more about these things? I'd like to close
this item out in my "things to do list'.
Cheers,
Chuck