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   D Finnigan to D Finnigan   
   Re: FASTCIRC--High-speed circles for HGR   
   28 Oct 22 19:23:33   
   
   From: dog_cow@macgui.com   
      
   D Finnigan wrote:   
   > Kent Dickey wrote:   
   >>   
   >> 2) It's actually not possible to detect PO or DO for an arbitrary .dsk   
   >> image.  Let me see your code you're using to auto-detect, and I can   
   >> create an image which it will fail on.   
   >   
   > But that's not the criteria is it? We don't need to write code that can   
   > detect any arbitrary image which you create solely for the purpose of   
   > failing said code.   
   >   
   > The set of all Apple II disks in existence is finite.   
   >   
      
   When I wrote and tested my Apple II disk format detection code for the Mac   
   GUI Vault web site, I tested it against however many thousand disk images I   
   had in the Apple II collection.   
      
   A finite set.   
      
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