Help! need to extract files from .hfe image file

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Help! need to extract files from .hfe image file

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I am sorry that I'm probably not a prime target user of the HxC software (nor a user of the hardware for that matter.)
However I hope someone can help me with this problem.
I have a HFE file, which I understand is a certain disk image format, that HxC uses. The image is from a Newbrain Emulator site, and contains in particular two Pascal source files that I would like to have a look at.

To do this I have researched quite a bit, and also downloaded the HxC software and built it on my Linux (Mint Debian) system.
However, when running ./hxcfe -verbose -finput <<image file path>> -infos, I just get
HxC Floppy Emulator : Floppy image file converter v2.5.5.1
Copyright (C) 2006-2021 Jean-Francois DEL NERO
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions;

libhxcfe version : 2.13.7.1

verbose mode
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- File informations -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
File:
Checking
Stopping HxCFloppyEmulator...
Same if I try the -list command.
No meaningful output whatsoever, no error message, no nothing.

What is going on? I presume the software is working, so it has to be me doing *something* wrong, but what?

thanks in advance,
Lasse

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Re: Help! need to extract files from .hfe image file

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Try to use the GUI version.

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Re: Help! need to extract files from .hfe image file

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Jeff wrote:
Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:03 pm
Try to use the GUI version.
Well, I did, and for some reason it helped, at least a little bit. It would not identify the CP/M structure on the disk, so no directory, no file access. But I managed to get an XML file out of it, containing the track data in a somewhat recognisable form, in hex. With help of a little Perl code (pack "H*") I could look at the data and find something that looks like Pascal code. Analysing a CP/M floppy directory and extent disk map I have done before long ago, that should be doable. Thanks for the help.

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