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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd also like to mention that using the long
filenames for disk images can cause problems for some users. For example, using
a utility such as Dwight's image transfer program under DOS means that each
image has to be renamed to the 8.3 naming convention before use, as such losing
the description along the way.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My suggestion would be that for archiving
images we instead adopt filenames such as DISKxxxx.H8D and have an
accompanying text file of the same name (of course .TXT extension) containing a
full description of the disk. You could even have DISKxxxx.JPG if you have a
picture of the disk label. There is then no doubt about what the accompanying
disk image contains and the file can be used as-is for most applications. If we
are likely to need to archive more than 10,000 disk images, the xxxx in the name
could of course be alpha-numeric.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I used this approach when recently converting
all my audio cassettes to .MP3 format. Now I have CASxxxxx.MP3, CASxxxxx.TXT and
even CASxxxxx.JPG which means I can even see what the cassette in question
looked like...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I may be missing something but I'm not too sure why
(other than perhaps for already established emulators) it's necessary to stuff
all the extra information about the image into the actual image file
anyway...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>