Date   : Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:51:41 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: *INFO

Greg Cook <debounce@...> wrote:
> > The disk title in the second catalogue has 8 x &AA bytes - this is
> > how you identify that the disk has two catalogues.
> 
> Wouldn't you also want to check the first catalogue doesn't have a file
>  starting before sector 4? (apart from the special !.!!!!!!!)
> E.g. A screendump featuring vertical pinstripes, or an SSD file with a
> badly-chosen disc title... *kaboom*
 
I posted some methods sometime last year for determining that a
WDFS 62-file catalogue actually was a 62-file catalogue and not
just a file that looked like a second catalogue. Try searching the
archives
 
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