Re: PC-tool with "drag & drop" functionality for DSK-images?

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

In comp.sys.apple2 Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
> : I am looking for a PC-tool to work with DSK-images which would
> enable the
> : user to "drag & drop" files contained in a  DSK-image into
> another image.

> Yep, CiderPress. I uses it all the time.
> 
>> http://www.faddensoft.com/ciderpress/download.htm

To be fair, you can't actually drag-and-drop between images.  I decided
against adding support for adding files directly to images because (1)
it's a bunch of work and (2) programs like FishWings already did it,
and did it for free.  Instead I concentrated on ShrinkIt file archives,
and the interaction between ShrinkIt disk and file archives.

What makes this a little easier than it sounds is the Apple II file
attribute preservation stuff, which allows you to extract all files to
a Windows directory without losing file name or file type information.
Once there you can mess with it any way you like, then stuff the whole
collection back into a file archive (which converts in one step to a
ProDOS disk image).

So, in a sense, you *can* drag and drop between ProDOS disk images, but
there's an extra "rebuild" step at the end.

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