Re: Write .nib files back to disk

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

amauget <amauget@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Finaly, I've tried an interresting (but not working) solution :
> - load the .nib file into an emulator,
> - use SST (Saltine's Super Transcopy) to make 2 dsk files from one nib file,
> - send the 2 dsk files (via ADTGS) to my Apple II GS
> - use SST once again to write the 2 DSK onto 1 disk.
> Once again, it fails.

That's the only approach I would have expected to work.  In theory, if the
nib data got carried successfully one way, it can go back the other way.

In practice, the first time it was read, there were some nice self-sync
bytes pointing the way, and the track didn't have a bunch of garbage
bytes to pad it out to exactly 6656 bytes.  So it's possible that it lost
something in the translation going backwards.

An easy way to test this would be to take the two DSK images you made
in step two and immediately recombine them on the emulator into a new
NIB file.  if the new .nib doesn't work, then you know that splitting
the original .nib into two pieces failed.

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