Re: Apple Legacy Recovery CD

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article <20050917141911782+1200@News.Individual.NET>,
 Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

> In <quDWe.1127$7x4.811@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> Sean Fahey wrote:
> 
> > I don't have software loaded on my Mac to make an ISO, hence 
> > the DMG.. Disks stored on the CD are in img format. So, that means Mac 
> > users will have it easy, PC users may have to work at it a little.
> 
> If you're running Mac OS X 10.3 or later you can use Disk Utility to do 
> it. Menu: Images / Convert... / Image Format / DVD/CD master. This 
> creates a *.cdr file. Just change the filename extension to *.iso and 
> it'll work with most other programs.

Excellent! I'd tried the "read-only" choice first, and it works, too.

Looking to see if I could actually mount a ProDOS filesystem on the 
Desktop, I tried Classic Disk Copy (v6.3.3). It too can decompress 
images, but apparently one needs PC File Exchange to peek inside.

Still, the resulting images are readable by (e.g.) Apple Commander:

$ java -jar ~/bin/ac.jar -l Users.dmg            

/USERS.DISK/
* PRODOS SYS 030 09/18/1984 02/18/1988 14,848 A=$2000 
* BASIC.SYSTEM SYS 021 06/18/1984 02/18/1988 10,240 A=$2000 
* FILER SYS 051 10/15/1983 10/15/1983 25,600 A=$016E 
* CONVERT SYS 042 11/01/1983 11/01/1983 20,481 A=$2000 
* STARTUP BAS 024 10/15/1983 10/15/1983 11,465 A=$0801 
* MOIRE BAS 003 10/15/1983 10/15/1983 941 A=$0801 
* HYPNOSIS BAS 003 10/15/1983 10/15/1983 637 A=$0801 
* ANIMALS BAS 010 10/15/1983 10/15/1983 4,578 A=$0801 
  LABELS BAS 006 06/12/1984 04/26/1984 2,167 A=$0801 
  FORMLETTER TXT 001 02/18/1988 02/18/1988 464  
  STARTUP2 BAS 003 02/18/1988 02/18/1988 821 A=$0801 
  BILL BIN 017 02/18/1988 02/18/1988 8,192 A=$2000 
  STARTUP.PRO BAS 003 02/18/1988 02/18/1988 735 A=$0801 
  STARTUP3 BAS 024 02/18/1988 02/18/1988 11,460 A=$0801 
ProDOS format; 693760 bytes free; 125440 bytes used.

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John
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