Re: Apple II / i'm fEDDup: now *really* backup your diskettes!

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

On 10/03/2012 11:43 PM, Antoine Vignau wrote:
> It copies DOS 3.3 or unrecognized disks as .DSK files and Pascal, ProDOS and CP/M disks are .PO files

Just a little rant from the sideline: Why not store *all* 5.25 inch disk
images as .DSK in DOS-Order. IMHO the whole "order" thing adds nothing
but confusion to disk image files, and it adds nothing but failure-prone
heuristic "guessing" code to software that handles disk images.

DOS-Order isn't any better or worse than ProDOS-Order (or
Block-Header-Order for that matter). For storing any kind of unprotected
image, no matter the OS it was formatted with, any order works, provided
you still remember which one it was when the time comes to use that
image. But DOS-Order is by far the most common way for 5.25 so I'd say
just use that and be done with it.

Or is there any noticeable software that can't handle ProDOS images in
DOS Order format?

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Linards Ticmanis