Re: Disk Images

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <3B21505B.BE881691@swbell.net>, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> 
wrote:

> william strutts writes ...
>>
>> What is the difference between a 2mg and a dsk format?
>
>      Don't know. It would be interesting to have someone explain the .2mg
> format.

DSK files are images of 140KB 5.25" floppy disks. They are simply a dump of
the sectors that make up a disk with no header info. Universal images hold
extra info in a header, including whether the disk is locked, the volume
number for a DOS disk and sector ordering (DOS vs ProDOS). They can also
hold nibbilised data (like NIB images) and more than 140KB for 3.5" floppies
and hard drive images.

http://a2central.com/programming/resources/filetypes/ftn-e0.0130.html has a
full explanation of the Universal Disk Image format aka 2IMG.

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