From: Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>
Dave Dunfield wrote:
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There's a bit of reverse engineered
information on the web, but it does
not
seem complete - Writing to a disk and re-reading seems like the quickest
and
most reliable way to do it given that I didn't have THAT many to do.
Having
the filenames auto-entered, and the comments captured and transferred
makes
this approach reasonable to do.
But how can you be *sure* nothing was mangled in the conversion? If you
can avoid two analog generational losses, hey, why not...
Hi
I wonder if the tool uses some of the BIOS routines to actually write
the sectors. If so, one could hijack those routines and write the data
to a separate file.
When I've written different formats and such, I usually go straight to
the hardware port but that is only because I don't understand how the
BIOS routines handle disk parameters, well enough to know what I'm doing.
Just a thought.
Dwight
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