16 Jun
2003
16 Jun
'03
2:16 p.m.
As you've seen, it is a lot easier, and MUCH more
fun, to write such
software than it is to deal with a lawyer who wants to open his water
Oh, indeed. Fortunately I don't have to support people like that.... I
just have to suppor my own crazy idesa
I didn't
write a program to directly copy a disk (for one thing, my PC
only has 1 3.5" floppy drive) -- I wrote programs to transfer between a
physical disk and an image file in both directions. That seemed to cover
it (just put the image file in /tmp if you don't need to keep it :-))
A very reasonable approach. It handles archiving, copying, and with some
software to parse the image, could handle data conversion. Of course. I was just pointing out that you might
still have problems,
and that a PC can't read all disks with 'western digital headers'. In
particular, I couldn't read disks formatted on my TRS-80 Model 4 on this
PC. I could format a disk on the PC with the same type of format and then
read/write it correctly on both machines.
Can you read them if you block the index signal? It CAN be
done. I had already assumed that Tony dould do it. _Most_ end
Why me? I am not a
programmer. In fact I doubt I'm a hacker [1] either.
[1] In the original sense. I am certainly not a cracker. 2) you understand the hardware that it needs to deal
with
True. I also have a fair idea of how a CP/M directory is put together,
what the various options in the 22disk program mean, etc.
3) you're willing to put the effort into
experimenting
It's often the only way...
-tony