Re: Disk images from PC to Apple //c

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

Hal Zabin (zabin@berlin.snafu.de) wrote:
: I know this is discussed in the FAQ, but I just don't get it. I
: have disk images (from ftp.asimov.com) on my PC and would like to
: transfer them to my //c. I have a functional null-modem connection
: up, I can transfer files, but the disk images are too large to
: transfer to even a formatted disk. I also have unshrinkit running
: on an emulator, but can't seem to get it to unshrink a disk 
: image. Can anyone point me the right direction?

Try saving the dsk images to a 3.5" disk.  The images are not
compressed at all; they are the same size as a disk, but also
include the OS.  That's why you can't save them to a 5.25"
disk: they're too large.

Unshrinkit will not unshrink a dsk image, because dsk images
are not shrunk: they're archived.  Get the BASIC program
called DeImage0.1.  This program correctly dearchives the
file to a 5.25" disk.

For a place to d/l the image to, you can try two things:
 - get a 3.5" disk mechanism
 - get enough RAM for a RAMdisk.

Tilghman