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   Steve Nickolas to fadden   
   Re: FASTCIRC--High-speed circles for HGR   
   29 Oct 22 23:40:58   
   
   From: usotsuki@buric.co   
      
   On Sat, 29 Oct 2022, fadden wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
   >   
      
   I consider .DSK to mean DOS order, and if a ProDOS order file is given the   
   .DSK extension I consider it a mistake.   
      
   But having the option to override on open is nice.   
      
   -uso.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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