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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: "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:03:25 -0800
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Silicon Valley North, Inc. (http://www.svn.net)
- References: <MOxY7.5105$ym.176@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <68a2ec1b.0201021113.316e77fd@posting.google.com>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:16056
Lazarus I. Long <me@lazilong.com> wrote in message
68a2ec1b.0201021113.316e77fd@posting.google.com">news:68a2ec1b.0201021113.316e77fd@posting.google.com...
> you're missing 2 steps:
>
> 1) convert the .dsk image into something readable by the Apple II (eg:
> a Copy ][+ .img file)
>
> 2) on the II side, re-create the original physical floppy from the
> .img file.
>
> To get info on these items, go here:
>
> http://www.lazilong.com/apple_II/ic/imageconv.html
>
I noticed that the .dsk images are GZipped. Is there a IIgs utility that
will unzip those? 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...
-Paul