Here what
22disk tell me:
http://elazzerini.interfree.it/Foto2982.jpg
Where I'm wrong?
1) Instead of transcribing some text, you sent a URL to a
picture
that is more than 2 MEGAbytes. (a photograph of your screen?)
Yes. (Well, not _my_ screen, but I can easily handle fetching a
two-plus-meg picture and looking at it.)
Here's a transcription of the display. This is a ten-finger copy and
thus may include errors. There is what looks like reflection of a
flash preventing part of the screen from being readable; I'm filling my
guess at the relevant area with ***s. (By playing with contrast
enhancement - severely stretching the brightest 1/40th or so of the
histogram - I managed to read a few characters more than are apparent
at first sight.)
| DISPLAY A CP/M DIRECTORY
|
| Enter CP/M file name. If you specify a diskette drive (user
| number is optional), it will override the selected CP/M drive.
| You may include 'wild card' characters (* and ?) in the name.
| ENTER will cause all files to be displayed: *****
| *******
| *******
| CDIR Ver. 1.44-Oct 21 1996, Copyright 1996, Sydex. All rights re*****d.
| THIS IS AN UNREGIETERED COPY--SEE DOCUMENTATION FOR DETAILS.
| Fabio Marverti Format
|
| * WARNING! * Out-of-range block number in directory.
| -- You may be using the wrong disk definition
| Block: 5000, FILE:
PROG.COM
|
| A0:B
A0:COPIA.COM A0:EXEC.COM A0:FCOPY.COM
| A0:MAGLIA.HLP A0:MINSTALL.DAT
A0:PACK.COM A0:PIP.COM
|
A0:PROG.COM A0:PROG.COM A0:PROG.COM A0:PROVA1.MMM
| A0:PROVA1.MMM A0:PROVA1.MMM
A0:STAT.COM A0:VERDSK.COM
|
| 1062K free on drive A:
| Press any key to continue...
|
I'm actually not sure of the e and d on the "CDIR Ver..." line next to
the obscured area; what I can see is consistent with the letters given,
and it seems highly likely the partially obscured text is "reserved",
but that e and d actually could for all I can tell be o and u or some
such instead.
C) Surely that file could be MUCH smaller.
It could. The picture is 3264x2448 pixels and shows not only the
screen but the monitor's frame, a camera (or something like it) mounted
on top of the monitor, and assorted miscellany in background - the only
thing there that looks easily readable to me is the name "BON JOVI",
but there are fragments of other things; none of the lot looks to me
likely to be relevant to the thread.
There is approximately no important loss of legibility in scaling it
down by a factor of 4 in each dimension.
A picture taken square-on without flash would have been substantially
easier to read - hint, hint, for anyone taking such pictures. (If your
camera doesn't know how to shut off flash, put something opaque in
front of the flash - there's no point using flash when taking a picture
of something self-luminant but not reflective.)
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