[sebhc] RE: Scanning HDOS source listings

[Carroll Waddell]

Barry Watzman wrote:

>OCR on an assembly listing will probably be useless, and I have not been
>doing it on any of the manuals that I have been scanning.
>
>I have several systems here with working 8" drives, but only running CP/M.
>Ironically, what I don't have, for now, is an MS-DOS system with 5.25"
>drives, other than the Z-100 (which doesn't have 3.5" drives), so I have no
>good way to get things from 5.25" to 3.5", even MS-DOS.
>
>Barry
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of
>Steven Parker
>Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 9:34 PM
>To: sebhc at sebhc.org
>Subject: [sebhc] RE: Scanning HDOS source listings
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>>Also, the "binding" would have to be broken
>>(permanently) to do this, they were originally bound with "velo-bind".
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>Yes, but you can reassemble them easily with the velo binder machine at any 
>Kinko's.
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>>>what would be more
>>>useful would be source code files that could be reassembled, created by 
>>>      
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>>a
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>>>disassembler but then "corrected" using the source code hard copy 
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>>listings
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>>>as a guide.
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>I was thinking of something similar when I asked for the OCR's.  I was going
>
>to to the other way, assemble and then compare the output with the release.
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>That way, once you get it fixed up, you have all the comments in the source 
>already.
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>>I would have thought that Pat [Swayne] or Steve [Parker] might
>>have had the "real" HDOS source code, right out of the software
>>engineering group.
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>I might.  But I've input nearly every 5 1/4" floppy I have already and 
>haven't seen it.  So if I do have it, it's almost certainly on 8" media and 
>I don't yet have anything set up to read them with.
>
>Hey, Pat .. "Got HDOS?"  :-)  How about Jim?
>
>Cheers,
>
>- Steven
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I'm not sure I understand, but do you need something transferred from 5 
1/4 to 3 1/2 or vice versa?
I still have an MSDOS system with both types of drives.
Carroll
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