Re: Transfering Disk Images from PC to Apple II

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber wrote:

>"Bruce Baker" <Bruce.Baker@juge.com> wrote in message
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>: You could always buy some of the software I am trying
>: to sell over on bidville or from many other people trying
>: to sell stuff.
>:
>: To do this right I think you need a 3.5" drive because
>: software in it's bundled form is actually larger than
>: the 5.25" capacity of 140k.
>
>In some formats yes, but the problem lies in that
>a .DSK image is exactly 140K and a formatted blank
>140K physical disk has nearly 4K used already, so
>the image will not fit on it.
>
>: So you need a larger drive.  3.5" drives are
>: 800k standard  DD.
>
>This is absolutely correct.

ShrinkIt is very useful in such cases.

-michael

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