9 Jul
2009
9 Jul
'09
9:32 a.m.
2009/7/9 Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com>:
On 09/07/2009 14:49, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
Yup. Which is why I was asking what Brian was trying to do... :?)
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a bin file isn't a packed file, AFAIK there's no direct way to get files
out of it.
the only way I know of is to write the file do a disk, then read the files
from there.
the reason is the bin is typically a "raw" disk
perhaps a floppy emulator would work, but that's a lot of work,
it's simpler just to write it to disk, then read the files off the disk.
there were (should be) utilities to read the mac floppy on dos/windows.
I used to have one, but have no idea where it is now.
> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:50:26 -0500
> Subject: Re: Classic mac fun (and some questions) (continued...again...)
> From: brianlanning at gmail.com
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
> I have but one obstacle left... being able to unpack an apple floppy
> image file from a PC. ?I have a bin file containing the files I need
> to get the quadra going.
Chances are that it's actually a BinHex file, or perhaps one that's been
unpacked, or it's a MacBinary file (later version of BinHex don't actually
generate true hex, so it might still look "binary"). ?There are open source
Unix utilities to unpack both of those formats, and also to handle
AppleSingle files (similar to MacBinary). ?The catch is that the files
inside will have two parts, a resource fork and a data fork (and possibly a
third part, the Finder data). ?If you unpack them on a PC, you may lose the
resource fork.