[Coco] OS-9 HD backup

[Kandur]

Gene, not sure, if Bru was available in 1989, when this backup was made.
It appears not being compressed, as the raw disk dump shows plain text, like this:

OSTerm V2.0.8 (C) 1989 by Vaughn Cato Copying permitted for non-profit use only To furthur the development of superior software, please contribute $10.00 to the author at: 1244 E. Piedmont Rd. NE. Marietta, Ga. 30062 Special thanks to Phil Zeigler, who thought when I could think no longer.

Hex dump of the start of the file:
http://qdv.pw/coco/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/config-os9.jpg 

Kandur

Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 11:41:27 AM, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2014 14:06:01 Kandur did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> My first batch of 28 floppy HD backup set had been restored
>> from 1989, thanks to Robert Gault's help and his endless patience.
>> The second  batch of 34 floppy HD backup set, may not have been
>> made by HDKIT, as it seem to have a different archive structure.
>> Please look at it, and let me know, if you can recognize it.
>> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=289

>> Kandur

> Any chance of its being made by either of the 3 BRU's was destroyed by the 
> apparent directory listing shown on that page.

> Since we've had several compression methods, I am wondering if perhaps it 
> an HDKIT backup, but HDKIT was configured to use a different, perhaps more 
> effective compression.  Its an avenue I'd explore.  One can often deduce 
> tha compression used by looking at a dump of the first 32 bytes or so of 
> one of the files, which often contains an identifier string.  dEd can show 
> you that information if it can read it at all.

> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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