Re: the .do disk image format

["Tim Worthington" <worthair@optushome.com.au>]

thanks, it tried that but without sucess
it turns out the size of the .do file i had is slightly bigger than a
standard .dsk file my only guess is that it was patched for use with an
emulator

tim

Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> Tim Worthington writes ...
> >
> > is there a program that will convert .do disk image files to .dsk for
use
> > with ADT. Im asking this because I want to play rescue rangers on my IIe
and
> > ive only found it in the .do format
> >
>  ....
>
>      A .do disk image is a .dsk disk image.
>
>      The only difference is that ".do" says: "This is a disk image using
DOS
> 3.3 sector ordering"; whereas ".dsk" says "This is a disk image which may
use
> DOS 3.3 or ProDOS sector ordering". An emulator is supposed to check a
.dsk
> file to discover the ordering; it does not need to check a ".do" or .po"
> file.
>
>      Over the years, the ".dsk" suffix has come to be accepted as equating
to
> ".do" because nearly all 5.25" .dsk images use DOS 3.3 sector ordering.
The
> ADT transfer utility has helped to establish this convention since it
insists
> upon dealing with ".dsk" files in DOS 3.3 order. (The actual content of
the
> image can be DOS 3.3 or ProDOS or some other DOS.)
>
>      Anyway, you can just change the name of narf.do to narf.dsk.
>
>
>
> Rubywand