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How to... ??? (Prolly a FAQ, but haven't spotted the answer)



OK, here's my situation:
Multiple (about 8-10) "dumpster recovery" //es, sevearl of them 
physically smashed, but electrically intact. By cannibalizing cases, 
keyboards, and other smashed but not "broken" bits and pieces, and a 
couple judicious applcations of the soldering iron to replace snapped 
off capacitors and repeair similarly damage on cards, I've gotten a pair 
of 99.9% intact machines running. Both are now "Enhanced //e" units. 
They've got disk controllers, ext. 80 column cards, Apple SSC II cards, 
accelerators, memory cards, and assorted other "toys" jacked into them, 
and they're ready to rock-n-roll once again. No drives when recovered, 
but I've hit the local salvation army-type store and now have a stack of 
5.25" drives to go with them, and several dozen (perhaps a couple of 
hundred) "MECC" disks of educational (but pretty well useless to me) 
software. I've grabbed the "ADTandDOS33DMP" file, but there is no "ADT" 
in it... just the DOS33DMP, which I have transferred as directed, (with 
a little adaptation, since I'm a Mac man, not a Wintel user) and 
successfully used the resulting "install" to init some disks soI at 
least have a DOS to work with. All is good there, but I keep seeing 
references to a program called "ADT" (or is it "AOT"? references seem to 
conflict, though "ADT" seems more likely to be proper) that will help me 
transfer disk images to the //e. But so far,I haven't managed to figure 
out where to get it, and once gotten, how to get it onto the //e so I 
can actually put it to use. The closest I've found has been "DKS2FILE", 
which I've grabbed, but I'm still in the dark as to how to get it onto 
the //e in operational form (The copy I have is in a .shk archive, which 
means, obviously, that I need to un-shk it. But doing that needs the 
ability to do un-shk, which is presumably contained in a .dsk file I've 
downloaded, but likewise can't figure out how to get onto the //e to run 
it) 

ARGH!!! That's some catch, that catch-22!

Anybody care to jump in and help? Or point me to the answer that I've 
apparently overlooked? TIA...

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