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

[toh@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Marc Sira)]

In our last episode, shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) said:

>: Does anyone know of another site that has at least the boot disk for
>: System 6? The ones on ftp.support.apple.com won't extract on my GS with
>: Shrinkit or on my PC with NuLib, apparently you need a Mac to get at them....
>
>They're set up that way so you can download them on a TCP connected Mac and
>Disk Copy 'em right onto floppies. Real handy that way.

Is that what that header is for? I suppose it makes sense from Apple's point
of view, where everyone who owns a GS must also have a Mac.

What do the floppies then contain, though? It would seem they'd just have
the .bxy files after all that. Little seems to be gained.

In any event, for what I hope is the last time, it's trivial to remove the
headers from the .bxy files and use them on the GS. The header is 512 bytes
long, and can be removed with various GS or //e tools. Better, if you used
a Unix box to FTP the files, use dd before downloading them. Baroque, but
it works.

dd if="GSOS (Disk 1 of 6)" of=gsos.d1.bxy skip=1 bs=512

The "bs=512" is probably optional, depending on what the default blocksize
is for your implementation of dd.

>And finally, there are IIgs programs to do unbinhexing and to convert Disk
>Copy image files.

Any pointers to these (to convert Disk Copy files)?

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