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Re: Apple DOS 3.2 help! HOW?



Oh?

Read *The DOS Manual" reverse of the preface page, and page 192-193.

The authors are consistent in their use of the terms convert and conversion.
In fact, I copied the language virtually verbatim.

Whoops!  Now, I suppose you're going to turn me in for plagiarism . . .


Frank
 . . . .preparing for a fusillade of exclamation points in Baltimore.


> > "Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
> > news:8vqgtp$g97$1@merope.saaf.se...


> What is converted though is the low-level format of the storage of
> the files: it is indeed converted from 5+3 nibblization to 6+2
> nibblization.  However, unless one deals directly with that low-level
> representation, one doesn't usually refer to this as "conversion".