[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Dave Froble]

On 1/26/2019 9:18 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/26/19 7:33 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Not doing this from the command line.  I have three GUI based apps
>>> and they all do it wrong.  Apparently they all see something wrong
>>> with the images and refuse to just burn the data to a CD/R.
>>
>> They see a file that isn't a .iso file and like a good gui they figure
>> you want to put that file into an ISO filesystem.  Rename the file to
>> .iso and Brasero will do what you expect.
>
> No, actually it won't.  I tried it.  And Windows doesn't see it as
> a valid .iso either so I am guessing Brasero knows what it is saying.
>
>>
>> THIS is why you should use the command line.
>
> The command line can't make the file format correct.
>
>>
>>> But these images are not .iso.  And just renaming them as one site
>>> recommended doesn't help.
>>
>> The .iso is a straight disk image, what you'd get if you did a dd from
>> the
>> raw disk device.  Your .img file is the same.
>
> Then the only possibility is that the files are corrupt.  We will
> see when I get the Freeware 8.0 stuff unzipped on VMS.
>
>>
>> Now, you have a second problem on Windows, in that you're using something
>> that checks to see that it's a recognizable filesystem, which it is not.
>> Because Windows doesn't know anything about VMS filesystems.
>
> Why would it care about the file system if it is writing an image
> to the disk?  Windows has happily written Plan9 and QNX and OS9000
> and Ultrix and Linux and BSD.  Why would it suddenly be looking at
> the contents of the ISO image just because it was Files-11?
>
> bill
>
>

WEENDOZE apps canbe confusing.  They think they know more than you.

Get some CD-RW disks, that avoids coasters.
Get the utility I mentioned.
Run it and give it the file, it will write it as a disk image.
If it's a bad file, the CD-RW will be reusable.
Don't make this a big project.


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