Re: DSK format specification

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message
news:jfrQa.1595$dk4.78076@typhoon.sonic.net...
> In comp.sys.apple2 Michael Pender <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I should probably point out that you get most of that with ShrinkIt.
> Empty blocks can be "zapped" with ProDOS 8 ShrinkIt, and then compress
> down to nothing.  Date and volume name info are stored.  It's always
> ProDOS-ordered, so there's no confusion.  There's a widely-tested utility
> for creating and unpacking images on the Apple II, and (if I may say so
> myself) solid support under pretty much every other platform via NuLib2.

But even SHK files give us trouble as Andy and I found out earlier
today, or was that yesterday as of now, anyway, apparently people
have uploaded files thru a browser or were not posted to the folder
properly on GROUND and the files ended up with an HTML header.
128 bytes of it. Once removed the file is fine, but does not work without
taking off the header. We must be careful of how we treat all archive
files, or there will be even more problems than we now have. Just
my 2 cents worth. ;-)

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
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Email - willy46pa@comcast.net

> The only copy-protected disks worth saving are 5.25", for which we have
> NIB (though see the recent discussion about things NIB doesn't have).
> Preserving copy-protected 3.5" disks doesn't seem to be all that important
> to people.
>
> Rather than finding an uber-format that handles everything, I think
> it's best to reduce as many formats as possible down to a single approach.
> Resolving the DOS vs. ProDOS ordering ambiguity can either be done like
> 2MG does it (adding a flag to support both and requiring all programs
> to handle them) or by simply defining things to be one way, and letting
> format conversion programs take the burden of swapping sectors around.
>
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