[Coco] Format of DEFT.ZIP

[Benoit Bleau]

Actually, it's 128 bytes decimal, not 80 (you probably meant 80$)  :)  I 
found a reference to a posting by you Robert that mentioned stuffit 
expander ( http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2004-January/003346.html)

The best way to see if the disk format is OK, after modifying the file 
is to load it with the MESS wimgtool .

-Ben

Robert Gault wrote:
> I can't speak for the author but I do know what is "wrong" with the 
> .dsk image in DEFT.ZIP. There is a header at the front of the image 
> and an extra bytes at the end of the image that MESS can't handle. If 
> you use a PC raw file editor and remove the first 80 bytes and then 
> make the file 27600 bytes long, there won't be any FS errors when 
> trying to use the disk image.
>
> My guess is that this image was created prior to the current programs 
> that work on PCs. The header contains QDISKCoCo which probably is the 
> image generating program. I don't know whether the tail end bytes are 
> required by any of the programs on the image but MESS expects either a 
> current header or 27600 bytes.
>