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Re: 1.44MB Disk Images



>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Serrano <MSerrano@bod.net> writes:
In article <4jplef$t5q@vixc.voyager.net> MSerrano@bod.net (Mike Serrano) writes:


    Mike> Hi ARDI folks!  Know you're REALLY busy, but just a
    Mike> suggestion...  is it possible to get DiskCopy or other disk
    Mike> image copiers to work with Executor?  I don't have easy
    Mike> access to a real Mac (that's why I use Executor) and alot of
    Mike> the Apple distributions are of 1.44MB disk images (I know
    Mike> that 800k images need to copied on a real Mac and onto
    Mike> 1.44MB disks; bummer).

Most 800k images *don't* need to be copied to a real Mac first.  800k
*floppies* do, but 800k *images* don't.  The problem with 800k
floppies is that the floppies are phyiscally encoded in such a way
that the PC drive can't read them.  However an 800k *image* is still
probably in HFS format, which means that you can turn it into an HFV
if you know where the HFS portion begins and ends.

That's all HFV files are: disk images.  My understanding is that
Apple's distributions have a few extra bytes at the beginning, so you
have to strip off those bytes before you can use them.

It's *possible* for an 800k disk image to be in Apple's *really old*
MFS format, but that format hasn't been used in ten years.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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