Re: Write .nib files back to disk

["Antony Mauget" <amauget@hotmail.com>]

Andy,

I don't give that point but I did what you say : merging the 2 DSK in one
NIB file on the emulateur perfectly works !


"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> a �crit dans le message de news:
fekjd.3939$_3.45476@typhoon.sonic.net...
> amauget <amauget@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Finaly, I've tried an interresting (but not working) solution :
> > - load the .nib file into an emulator,
> > - use SST (Saltine's Super Transcopy) to make 2 dsk files from one nib
file,
> > - send the 2 dsk files (via ADTGS) to my Apple II GS
> > - use SST once again to write the 2 DSK onto 1 disk.
> > Once again, it fails.
>
> That's the only approach I would have expected to work.  In theory, if the
> nib data got carried successfully one way, it can go back the other way.
>
> In practice, the first time it was read, there were some nice self-sync
> bytes pointing the way, and the track didn't have a bunch of garbage
> bytes to pad it out to exactly 6656 bytes.  So it's possible that it lost
> something in the translation going backwards.
>
> An easy way to test this would be to take the two DSK images you made
> in step two and immediately recombine them on the emulator into a new
> NIB file.  if the new .nib doesn't work, then you know that splitting
> the original .nib into two pieces failed.
>
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