Re: DOS 3.2 woes

["Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@buckeye-express.com>]

Linards Ticmanis wrote:
> Is any software on the Web somewhere that would allow creation of DOS
> 3.2 disks without needing DOS 3.2 disks to begin with?

I have gen-u-wine Apple DOS 3.2.1 diskettes; I could make copies
and send them to you.

On a more general note, what would be the best way to archive
13-sector disks?  I can think of two obvious ways.  (1) Write 
a DOS 3.3 program that reads 13-sector disks and copies the
sectors to a 16-sector disk.  This disk would not be directly
usable, but you could use standard tools to archive it.  You
would have a second program to read the 16-sector disk and 
copy it to a 13-sector disk.  (2) Write a ProDOS program to
read the 13-sector disk and copy it to a single file.  This
file would be 116,480 bytes long and could fit on a floppy
diskette.  Again, you would have a second program to format
a 13-sector diskette and copy the contents of the file to it.