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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: 1.44MB Disk Images
- Date: 02 Apr 1996 11:28:21 -0700
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- >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Serrano <MSerrano@bod.net> writes:
- In article <4jplef$t5q@vixc.voyager.net> MSerrano@bod.net (Mike Serrano) writes:
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- 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).
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- 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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