Re: NIB and DSK questions

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Feb 6, 10:19 am, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Feb 5, 11:30 am, Egan Ford <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 1.  Is there a CLI tool (with source, preferably POSIX) that will
> > convert unprotected NIB to DSK?  I've searched and have not found much
> > (with links that still exist).  BTW, is there a NIB format description
> > floating around anywhere?
>
> Looks like BLuRry took care of you there.  But what do you have an
> unprotected .NIB for in the first place?

Is it safe to assume that some .nibs floating around out there were
created just because that is the imaging format they used?  Or should
the safe assumption be that .nib was used because nothing else would
work?

> No such assumption of any kind is made.  If they're not 143360,
> they're bad - or they're not an undecorated .dsk/.do/.po.  Like
> Brendan said, inspection usually will show you what the problem is.
> I've seen random garbage at the end of too-long images, and if they're
> short... zeroes are your only option.

Thanks.