Re: PC to Prodos disk - problems still

[phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net>]

Andy McFadden wrote:

> At one point, Andy Nicholas moved the filename from the "record" structure
> into a thread.  Older programs should reject the archive because of an
> invalid record version, but if he wasn't testing for that, the net result
> would be records without filenames.
>
> SHK compressed disks aren't based on the raw track image.  I'm confused.
> NuLib extracts disk images into a ProDOS-ordered (?) data file, so you
> shouldn't expect to see track/sector markers in NuLib output.
>
> The "integrity test" feature of NuLib was worthless, but the "extract"
> feature should work fine.

I'm not sure why the .sdk files had problems. It was compressed with
shrinkit GS and copied from an HFS volume to an ext2 filesystem.
I really haven't done any more testing though. I seldom use Nulib, I
was just trying to point out that people should not rely on it to validate
.shk files.

Phoenyx