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DSK image quirk
- Subject: DSK image quirk
- From: "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:37:32 -0400
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:33868
Here's one for the FAQs.
I tried to open a DSK image with CiderPress, and
it reported that it was not a valid DSK image, but
gave no reason otherwise. Then I tried with FishWings,
and that reported the same but told me that the size
was 143,361 instead of the required 143,360, so using
a hex editor I went in and removed one redundant byte
from the very end of the file and VOILA!, everything
can now see the image as a normal DSK image. Weird.
How do you suppose it got an extra byte? It was zipped.
Is it possible that the program used to compress it added
the extra byte to alleviate a fractional number of bytes in
compressed version? Hmmmm, weird.
Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
Email - willy46pa@comcast.net
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