[Coco] .dsk format

[Robert Gault]

Bill wrote:
> Pardon what may be a silly question, but can files saved in the .dsk format
> be downloaded and put back on their original condition using a coco?
> 

Theoretically that could be done. The problem is that the .dsk image is 
so large it won't fit on a floppy. If you have a hard drive system you 
might be able to do this running OS-9. If the .dsk image was a Disk 
Basic disk, you would need to create an OS-9 program to write sectors on 
a disk formatted for Basic.
If you can get around the above restrictions, you would write each 
sector of data from the .dsk image to the equivalent sector on a real 
floppy.

In short, it is just not worth the effort as it is so simple to create a 
real floppy from the .dsk file on a PC.