Re: Dsk2File woes

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

"..." writes ...
> 
> I was trying to convert some *.dsk images over to the apple //e with a big
> 1for?? (large number) success ratio.
> 
> I had the images on the mac, dropped them to a prodos disk, after I dropped
> them on protype. I used CopyII+ to format the blank disks dos3.3. I then used
> dsk2file to transfer the disks from the 3.5 to the 5 1/4. One worked, and the
> rest ended up empty disks with an error directly under the track/sector
> display(what I presume) of 4C (which came up around sector 10) and another that
> has left my mind.
> 
> The result is nothing on the disk. I think during this I typed the path and
> filename more carefully then I ever had with extension and without. Am I doing
> something really obvious?
> 
> The system is a IIe enhanced, i used a 80col card and ramworks w/ 256, slot 5
> unicontroller, and disk II controller in 6.
 ....


     It sounds like maybe most of your disk image files were actually .dsk.gz
files. A standard 5.25" disk image should show as containing 143,360 bytes. (The
"on disk" size may be smaller under ProDOS; but, the actual file size should be
143,360 bytes.) 

     If the files which bombed have an actual size smaller than the standard size,
they may be .dsk.gz files. These are compressed disk images. Most disk images are
maintained in .dsk.gz form to conserve space. You can use a utility like PC WinZIP
to uncompress these files.




Rubywand