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Re: Making hard copies of Disk Images (.dsk). . . will this work?

Subject: Re: Making hard copies of Disk Images (.dsk). . . will this work?
From: CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 03:06:00 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Bell Sympatico
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:03:25 -0800, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
wrote:

>I noticed that the .dsk images are GZipped. Is there a IIgs utility that
>will unzip those?

There is an 8 bit utility called GZ2PKZIP (or something like that)
that will convert a GZ file into a ZIP file so that you can use
standard ZIP unarchiving programs on your Apple II to unpack them.

>If they are unzipped on a Mac (the original poster has a
>Mac), won't the files be forked? I guess they could be unforked on the IIgs
>for processing by your Image converting utility...

Resource forks won't be a problem for IIgs utilities to deal with but
8 bit utilities like the GZ2PKZIP I mentioned above and DSK2FILE will
choke on them.

--
 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II Unversity on A2Central.com
               - CUT the obvious from my address to e-mail me

References:
- Making hard copies of Disk Images (.dsk). . . will this work?
  - From: "VZE26PJV" <rambo.dsl@verizon.net>
- Re: Making hard copies of Disk Images (.dsk). . . will this work?
  - From: me@lazilong.com (Lazarus I. Long)
- Re: Making hard copies of Disk Images (.dsk). . . will this work?
  - From: "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>

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