Re: Converting disk images to floppies....

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Jeff Blakeney writes ...
> 
> On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 17:47:04 -0600, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >     Notice that you do not actually say that you have run the
> >downloaded images on an emulator. Just in case ...  the .dsk.gz image
> >files you normally find on disk image archive sites are in compressed
> >form. They need to be uncompressed using WinZIP or a similar utility on
> >your Mac or PC. This should give you true .dsk files which can be
> >transferred to your IIgs and converted to disk form.
> 
> Actually, you don't have to uncompress them on the Mac or PC.  There
> is a program for Apple IIs called gz2pkz or something very similar
> that will convert a .gz file to a .zip file that you can use other
> Apple II utilities (like UnZip IIe, Angel or Agate, PMPUnzip, or one
> of several unzip shell utilities) to unpack them.
>
> At least, gz2pkz has worked for me the few times I've used it.  It
> seems to me that there were one or two people that it didn't work for
> but I'm not 100% sure on that.
 ....

     My results with gz2pk have been spotty. WinZIP on the PC is vastly
more reliable, faster, and more user-friendly. True, this means you must
transfer full-size .dsk files to the Apple II; but, at any decent baud
rate, the transfer is still pretty speedy.

     Life for disk image archive users would be simpler and easier if
the archive sites would start using the standard .zip format for
compressing .dsk files ... 

1. We would still have the option of using WinZIP or a similar utility
on the PC or Mac end.

2. If we decided to send the .zip file to the GS, we could handle it
easily using PMPUnzip.



Rubywand