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Re: inside .nib?



In article <3997C594.8733971A@mclink.it>,
Enrico Colombini  <erix_togliere_@mclink.it> wrote:
}> Raw data, consisting of $1A00 nybbles per track.  No header or
}> anything else, just nibbles.
}
}Thanks. Starting at a random point, without trying to locate a presumed
}inter-sector gap?

That's up to the creator of the image, not part of the format.  You'd
expect it to usually start at a self-sync nybble simply as an artifact,
though.

}I am not sure $1A00 will give enough sector overlap to guarantee a fully
}readable track in case of a slightly below-standard-speed recording.
}Besides, I suppose it can't do anything in case of a single track-long
}sector: that would require reading the whole track at least twice.

The single track-long sector (a.k.a "18 sector") case is a pretty
common use for .nib, actually.
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