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- From: pbeast@stellar.comnet.com (Perry Eidelbus)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Zip2d64
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 09:51:08 GMT
- Organization: Utah Wired
- Message-ID: <4dt2ac$r8j@tiger.utw.com>
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- David Cummins (davcum@delphi.com) wrote:
- : >I need a UNIX prgm that can change d64 to zipcode in my shell acct...Do
- : >you have anything like that?
- : .
- : Jeez, guys, why not just get a commie? Life would surely be simpler. :-)
- : Dave
-
- Actually, it's much easier with my shell acount. The d64-to-zipcode
- program I've compiled on my account takes two seconds to convert a .d64
- file to the four zipcode files. Thus, the only substantial time I spend
- converting is in unzipping the files (only a couple of minutes). Also,
- since zipcode packs unallocated sectors, the four files are almost always
- less than the full .d64 file, so I save time in downloading. This whole
- process is currently quite a bit faster than spending 10 minutes in
- converting each .d64 directly to a 1541 (with Jiffydos'd 1581 and 1541),
- sans downloading time. :)
-
-
- Perry-beast Political Science major, poet and singer, PC hardware
- pbeast@utw.com tech and a very Beastly Nice Chap (hey, ask Linus!).
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