Re: Converting disk images to floppies....

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

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.

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