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|    fadden to D Finnigan    |
|    Re: FASTCIRC--High-speed circles for HGR    |
|    29 Oct 22 07:47:00    |
      From: thefadden@gmail.com              On Friday, October 28, 2022 at 12:21:40 PM UTC-7, D Finnigan wrote:       > 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.               Even if your auto-detection succeeds on 100% of all known DOS and ProDOS (and       Pascal and CP/M) disks, you will be unable to auto-detect the layout of disks       with a customized operating system, of which there are many. I believe most       ".dsk" images are DOS        order, which means the odds of success are > 50% on a blind guess... but why       guess at all, when giving the image the correct filename extension removes the       ambiguity?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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