16 Aug
2014
16 Aug
'14
4:50 a.m.
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 3:24 AM, David Schmidt <david at attglobal.net> wrote:
I've imaged a little stack of Displaywriter
8" disks and am starting in on
filesystem organization.
Would you able to list the diskettes please so I can add to the public
catalogue of known Displaywriter software.
Is there any reference material out there to help me
decode (or find) the
file allocation structures?
The "physical" layout is documented here:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/floppy/GA21-9182-5_Diskette_Gene…
and there are other versions of the document in the same directory.
The DW logical structure more or less follows the physical layout,
however there are new filetypes and extensions. I was planning to
return to building a decoder once I had additional images to work with
so it would be easier to triangulate the DW specifics.