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Re: .GZ (GNU) Files???
- Subject: Re: .GZ (GNU) Files???
- From: lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)
- Date: 1996/04/14
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
- References: <4ki3se$oq4@apollo.isisnet.com>
Tony Cianfaglione (ab616@ccn.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
: How come the GNU (.GZ) compressed files, when uncompressed and form 143K
: files, do not fit on a 5.25" disk? The files at CDROM uncompress to form
: 143k disk files, yet once a disk is formatted, only 137k remains.
: Also, the few that fit rendered a message 'Unable To Load Prodos'.
Use Deimage, available as a Nulib (SHK) archive at Asimov. The
program properly arranges the tracks and saves them to disk.
Warning: most disk images are NOT ProDOS disks. Most are either
Pascal or DOS 3.3.
Tilghman