Re: Really Old (tm) floppies...

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

MJMahon writes ...
> 
> Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
> 
> >     For sure, v9.0 and 9.1 turned out to be turkies. One very nice
> >feature is the File Compare; but, just the problems working with /RAM5
> >greatly limit v9.x usefulness.
> 
> Ah, but the File Compare function had a fatal flaw--it only
> compared the first part of a large file, if I remember correctly.
> I reported it and was rewarded with an upgrade (to 9.1?)
> which I think actually worked.

 ....

    'Hope it does-- 9.1 is the version I use. Well, just a minute ...
Good! I took a 164k file ('FileA') and changed four bytes in the last
block of a copy (FileB). The File Compare in Copy II Plus v9.1 notices
that the files are different and shows the correct four bytes as the
difference.

  
> 
> BTW, I think the original questioner is getting _way_ too much
> advice about how to capture his images and save them.  Just
> using ADT to get .dsk images to his PC and then burning them
> on a CD will be perfect.  200x143K won't even make a dent
> on a CD, and the .dsk images will be ready to use with an
> emulator or to transfer back to 5.25" floppies on an Apple.
> 
> I can't see why the questioner would be motivated to go out
> and invest in a IIgs just to needlessly shrink his images!  ;-)
>

     My main concern-- and, maybe Supertimer's, too-- was with getting
to the archived stuff at some later date. That the ADT files are disk
images which work on popular A2 emulators is a big help. If they can be
converted back to diskette form using DSK2FILE or Asimov, then, as you
say, there is no obvious reason to use Shrinkit compression. 



Rubywand