mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20021211195126.21179.00000150@mb-cu.aol.com>...
> There should be a "tolerance" standard for the Mac, which would
> encourage each app to try its darndest to make sense out of any
> file that the user attempted to open with it.  But, of course, with
> multiple levels of confusion, as we have with Apple II images, its
> only the clever app writers who put in the work to hueristically
> determine how to use any image file, using whatever information
> is available to them--boot sectors, directory blocks, image length,
> etc.

I totally absolutely agree with you.  I may have something that will
help this situation.  Open your disk image with ADFS.

http://www.lazilong.com/apple_II/adfs/

This program *does* the magic of figuring out what the disk image is
made of.  It can read any sector order (DOS 3.3, ProDOS, CP/M, Copy
II+) and convert it to any other.  But most importantly for you, it
can re-save it in a known format, for example 2img.   It figures out
what's in the disk by doing what is described above, by smartly
figuring it out.  It will even figure out the sector order.

The caveat is it works only with un-protected disks.  

So: run ADFS
drag your disk image on to it.
choose "Disk->Sector Order and Format"
make sure for sector order you have "DOS 3.3 or ProDOS"
choose "2img" as the format
hit okay
quit

your disk image is virtually guaranteed to work in Bernie now.

-laz



mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20021211195126.21179.00000150@mb-cu.aol.com>...
> There should be a "tolerance" standard for the Mac, which would
> encourage each app to try its darndest to make sense out of any
> file that the user attempted to open with it.  But, of course, with
> multiple levels of confusion, as we have with Apple II images, its
> only the clever app writers who put in the work to hueristically
> determine how to use any image file, using whatever information
> is available to them--boot sectors, directory blocks, image length,
> etc.

I totally absolutely agree with you.  I may have something that will
help this situation.  Open your disk image with ADFS.

http://www.lazilong.com/apple_II/adfs/

This program *does* the magic of figuring out what the disk image is
made of.  It can read any sector order (DOS 3.3, ProDOS, CP/M, Copy
II+) and convert it to any other.  But most importantly for you, it
can re-save it in a known format, for example 2img.   It figures out
what's in the disk by doing what is described above, by smartly
figuring it out.  It will even figure out the sector order.

The caveat is it works only with un-protected disks.  

So: run ADFS
drag your disk image on to it.
choose "Disk->Sector Order and Format"
make sure for sector order you have "DOS 3.3 or ProDOS"
choose "2img" as the format
hit okay
quit

your disk image is virtually guaranteed to work in Bernie now.

-laz