[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Nirtros9 on MESS?

[Tom Watt]

I know what they are :)  how do i get it INSIDE a .DSK file?  Or i could extract
the files to my PC with WinRAR, but how do i get the extracted files into a
.DSK?

Quoting Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>:

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> On Wednesday 26 January 2005 16:35, Tom Watt wrote:
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> >OK i found somewhere that says you rename the .dsk to .os9 and it
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> > works!! :) but now next challenge.. the program i want to run is a
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> > .lzh file.. how do i get it into a .dsk or .os9 file?
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> >> Is it possible?  I put in the disk 1 ".dsk" and type DOS when
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