I've imaged a little stack of Displaywriter 8" disks and am starting in
on filesystem organization. With an EBCDIC filter I can see the data
plain as day. I've also got experience stitching together the
DisplayWriter files that come from the DOS-based system, so if I could
get the file allocation scheme figured out and lift off whole files from
these disk images, I bet the same conversion code would work on the
resulting data.
I've browsed the manuals on Bitsavers, but of course IBM never intended
their users to actually look at the bytes on the disk. So none of the
information was geared towards revealing the file allocation secrets.
Is there any reference material out there to help me decode (or find)
the file allocation structures?
- David