16 Aug
2014
16 Aug
'14
9:37 a.m.
On 08/15/2014 10:24 AM, David Schmidt wrote:
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?
I did a DW to (of all things) HTML conversion utility some years back. I
recall that the filesystem (if it could be called that) was a bit odd.
The curious thing that I remember about the data was that all of the
special effects (bolding, underlining) were actual printer codes fro the
IBM daisywheel printer.
If you're desperate, I can see if I can still find my work. I haven't
seen a DW floppy in perhaps a decade.
--Chuck