Re: standard file extensions for exported apple dos files ?

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Jonno Downes <jonnosan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 12:40?pm, sicklittlemonkey <Nick.Westg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Meta data in the filename like Ciderpress uses is a good idea, though
> > I'd like to see it a bit more organised. Verbosity in filenames isn't
> > a bad thing these days.
> >
> The thing about this is, the data in the filename is also in the file
> itself, so not quite sure what value there is to this (also, you then
> have the issue of which of the 2 places the info is stored should be
> canonical, should they ever get out of sync for any reason).

The filename extensions used by CiderPress and NuLib2 are specifically
designed to preserve the ProDOS file type, aux type, and whether or not
the file represents a resource fork.  It also provides a way to preserve
characters like ':' that are legal under DOS 3.3 but illegal under Windows.

The format is documented here:
  http://nulib.com/library/nulib2-preserve.htm

One of the standard tests I used was to extract the GS/OS System 6 boot
disk to Windows as individual files, create a blank disk image, add the
files to it, and then boot the disk in an emulator.

I'm not sure what you mean about the data being in two places.  If that's
the case, then I would argue that the data is already in two places on
the original media, either 'A' or 'B' in DOS or "BAS"/"BIN" in ProDOS.

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