paul marwick wrote to Roy J. Tellason on 09-17-1999

pm> Hi Roy
pm> 
pm> Replying to a message of Roy J. Tellason to Bat Lang:
pm> 
pm>  RJT> On that subject,  is there any easy way to deal with *.DSK files, 
pm>  RJT> other than actually making the floppies?
pm> 
pm> It depends on the format of the .dsk (IBM appears to have updated
pm> the  creation program at some stage). However, for a number of  them
pm> (certainly including all the current Fixpack images)  DIUNPACK can
pm> be used to dump the contents to the hard  drive. It can be found
pm> bundled with any version of  FASTKICK, and I'm fairly sure I've seen
pm> it on its own as  well...

At least one group, the LAN division, seems to be using a very old
creation program that bombs the LOADDSKF most of us have.  I prefer a
program called dskxtrct myself as it has a lot more error checking. 
It's in the QF11 package (hobbes, etc) and works quite well.

 
Will Honea 
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