toddpw@yvonne.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (12/25/90)
Ok, I've got the 5.0.4 disks unpacked and working. Here's how they were packed: Apple DiskCopy (whose format is published, I have a copy) StuffIt on the DiskCopy file BinHex on the StuffIt archive. This is why NOBODY without a Mac can actually unpack these things -- no port of DiskCopy exists for unix or the II yet. The reason I could unpack these things is because there are publicly available macs here at 'tech (actually this one was my roommate's but that's not the point). Actually DiskCopy is a really simple format ... I think I'll put off Lord High Giffer for another evening and write a cheap diskcopy unpacker in BASIC!! HA HA HA !! MERRY CHRISTMAS APPLE!! PPHHPPTT!! Anyway, I want to take a poll and find out how many people have access to the 5.0.4 disks but not access to Apple DiskCopy. Mail me. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu
zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) (12/27/90)
Now that the System Disks are available FTP, would it be legal to post 'em to binaries.? -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM
EWINGRA@CTRVX1.VANDERBILT.EDU ("IN%"INFO-APPLE@APPLE.COM" 19-DE") (12/27/90)
Actually, most people, especially in the developer community do not use DiskCopy to read Diskcopy files. SOmebody wrote an interesting hack that's on the System 7.0beta disk that's a cdev. It allows you to *mount* a diskcopy file as if it were a real disk...pretty neat, I think. I'm not sure that you'll be able to easily write a program that reads the Diskcopy format (at least the Mac format) since I think that the file pretty closely mimics HFS. But since others has written HFS->GS/OS translators, this shouldn't be impossible. Since Diskcopy files can be in Apple ][ format, (or even Lisa), I think that a reade for the Apple ][ world would be a worthwhile project. --Rick Ewing Vandebilt University
ART100@PSUVM.PSU.EDU ("Andy Tefft 725-1344", 814) (12/30/90)
It would be nice if the prodos 8 system software were up there as well...