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From: dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
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Subject: Re: ProDos disk organization
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Date: 6 Jan 89 22:10:17 GMT
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In article <11105@swan.ulowell.edu> tclark@hawk.ulowell.edu (T.C. Clark) writes:
>
>	I'm trying to recover some data on a 3.5" disk and was wondering
>	if someone could give me a brief idea of how ProDos disks are 
>	organized. I've deciphered some of block #2 as far as the 16 byte
>	file and directory names followed by filetype codes. But how about
>	byte offsets to subdirectories and 'deleted' flags etc...?
>

Although it is very organized, it is quite messy to describe. I
suggest you get a copy of Beneath Apple Prodos by Quality Software. It
covers just about everything in a readable form.


Dave Whitney	Third year undergraduate student in Computer Science at MIT
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