<html><body> <DIV>While my format won't support embedded JPEGs, I modestly remind the group that because I encode the binary data in octal (or hex) notation, semicolon-initiated comment lines can be inserted anywhere.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Converting my images to h8d format means that there really is something that's "lost in the translation".  :)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Jim Battle <frustum@pacbell.net> <BR><BR>> Dave Dunfield wrote: <BR>> > I seem to have deleted it, but someone was just talking about keeping <BR>> > labels for H8D files... <BR>> <BR>> As I was passively following this thread, I was thinking it was crazy <BR>> that the sum total descriptive information of the disk images is <BR>> contained in the filenames. <BR>> <BR>> Metadata must be kept somehow, and making it part of the disk image <BR>> itself makes the most sense. In the virtual disk image formats I cooked <BR>> up for my Sol and Wang emulators, I have a fixed block to hold format <BR>> revision, disk format (# tracks, sides, density, etc), plus a fixed <BR>> amount of space for a label. I regret making the label fixed size, even <BR>> though it is much more than anybody ha s ever squeezed onto a real disk <BR>> label. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Delivered by the SEBHC Mailing List <BR>> If you would like to unsubscribe, please send the word "unsubscribe" <BR>> in the **body** of a message to sebhc-request@sebhc.org. </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>