Re: System 6 disks on Apple FTP toasted...

[zelix@klondike.winternet.com (Peter Handel)]

In article <DFvKLA.My7@actrix.gen.nz>,
David Empson <dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>The other set can be extracted on a IIgs, with some difficulty.  They
>consist of a ShrinkIt disk image with a Binary II header (.bxy), with a
>512-byte MacBinary II header (I think) in front of that.
>
>All you have to do is get rid of the first 512 bytes and the result is
>a valid .bxy file, containing a shrunk disk image which can be
>extracted using GSHK or ShrinkIt for the IIe.

>I was able to get at the .bxy file after I removed the first 512 bytes
>(using an ORCA/Shell "binary file split" utility I wrote a while ago).

How difficult/legal/etc. would it be to hack up GSHK v1.1 to do this
automagically?

>David Empson
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz



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