[Info-vax] Disk image viewable in Windows/Linux

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-08-05 02.09, Sum1 wrote:

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> For the others providing responses or questions about why I am trying to
> do what I want…..
>
> I want to take a whole ODS2 and/or 5 disk and encapsulate it into a
> container file; LD seems to do that, I am unsure if the container file
> used by PersonalAlpha does that *without* adding its own meta-structures.
>
> Why do I want this? As I have said several times, I *don't* want to
> mount the container on Linux or Windows to read the files and their
> contents in a record-oriented sense; I want to be able to examine the
> binary disk structure, the location and contents of the meta-data, the
> location and contents of the files/directories/other stuff.
>
> It appears that LD will let me do this as I can FTP the container to
> wherever I want, I can then also compare an identically-built
> PersonalAlpha container file and see what (if any) differences exist.
>
> Thanks all who provided help with this :)

I hope you do know that the file structure is documented, and you can 
just read up on the spec instead of trying to figure it out yourself. :-)

	Johnny