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- From: stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (GSS 087272 St. Lucas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Not BBR but ...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.225110.16470@gdwest.gd.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 22:51:10 GMT
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- Ok, I'm not very knowledgeable in the dealings with the ms-dos formats
- and the like, but it seems the msdos/commodore disk utilities all load
- the files into memory, crunch on them (converting petscii to ascii or
- vice-versa), and then spit the stuff out to the disk. They are limited
- to 32k (40k, it doesn't matter). Why can't the program read a minimal
- amount of data from the msdos disk, whatever a block/sector equivalent
- is on ibm, and then dump it to the commodore disk, doing whatever
- conversion is necessary, and then read some more? THis wouldn't be
- limited to memory space available. If one were going only from msdos
- to commodore, what's wrong with this? Is the limitation on these
- programs mostly in going from commodore to msdos format?
- Really curious, maybe I should re-read the last hardware hacker...
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