Re: Brutal Deluxe's MountIt goes 1.1

[Michael Kent <n.kent@webtv.remove.this.com>]

Steven Nelson <steven-nelson@uiowa.edu> wrote:

> I am probably way off track here, but ...
> When I downloaded the MountIt.PO file, it downloaded as
> MOUNITIT.PO.txt.  Ditto for the MOUNIT.SHK (dnloaded as
> MOUNIT.SHK.txt).  After moving them to the GS, removing the .txt
> extension still left them as TXT files.  I had to change the file-type
> to BIN  (using SuperInfo, Bill Tudor, Quality Computer SixPack?).
> Clicking on the .PO image mounts the disk.  It wouldn't when the file-
> type was TXT.

Ding!  Ding!  Ding!  Ding!!!

Converting the disk image to filetype=BIN did the trick.  It doesn't like
disk images as filetype=TXT, apparently.  Not such a bad thing.  This way
I can toggle the preference back in Hermes to let it grab the text files
when I double-click them.  Best of both programs.

All I can say is "Wow!"  MountIt is awesome!  Not only can I view disk
images in Finder just like an actual disk with the proper Icons and
directory structure -- blows away Balloon -- but the images are update-
able too!  I can copy files into and out of them just like the image was
an actual disk.  Awesome!!

And just for kicks, I copied the MountIt.PO disk image into itself.  It
works!  (Gotta love sparse files!)  Not only that, I can mount it from
within itself too (gotta rename it, but that's expected).  How many layers
deep can I go?

And once mounted, the images are available in other applications.  I can
read a text file on the MountIt disk image with File-A-Trix from within
Spectrum.  Wow!!  Totally awesome!!!

This comes damn close to the disk image FST I asked for in the other
thread.

Hmmm.  Maybe if we could dismount the disk image by dragging it into the
trash?

Thank you, Antoine.  Well done!

Mike

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