Re: System 6 disks on Apple FTP toasted...

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <44ufim$cd9@blackice.winternet.com>,
Peter Handel <zelix@klondike.winternet.com> wrote:
>>All you have to do is get rid of the first 512 bytes and the result is
>>a valid .bxy file, containing a shrunk disk image which can be
>>extracted using GSHK or ShrinkIt for the IIe.

>>I was able to get at the .bxy file after I removed the first 512 bytes
>>(using an ORCA/Shell "binary file split" utility I wrote a while ago).

>How difficult/legal/etc. would it be to hack up GSHK v1.1 to do this
>automagically?

   Well, if we had some source code to GSHK, this would be pretty
trivial.  In the meantime, well, homewritten programs will just have
to do. As David Empson wrote, a quick utility to do such a thing isn't
that hard at all.  It probably wouldn't take all that long at all to
code something up that did this, especially in a higher level
language. No, I'm not volunteering to write such a thing anytime soon;
classes have started, and work's swamping me.

Nathan Mates

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