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UnForkIt, UnImage Pro and DeImage v0.1 7/4/94 by Ivan Drucker These are some BASIC programs I designed to make my life easier, so perhaps they'll make yours easier too. All the programs have pretty self-explanatory operation, but I included extensive documentation with each because I'm obsessive. All the programs require ProDOS 8 (I assume any version) and BASIC.SYSTEM. UnImage Pro converts Apple ][ 5.25" disk images, such as those used with Kevin Lund's great Mac-based emulator Stop the Madness!, back to disks. It requires that the image be on a mounted ProDOS volume, and rather obviously it requires a 5.25" drive. It is unpolished but usable. DeImage reads DOS 3.3 disk images, and allows you to extract AppleSoft and Binary files into ProDOS. It requires that the image be on a mounted ProDOS volume. It is very slow when not the image is not on a RAM disk or a hard drive. It is unfinished, and will probably stay that way as far as my participation goes. It works well for those two filetypes, though. UnForkIt converts forked files on ProDOS volumes to one or two unforked files. Rather than copying the forks to new files, it instead alters the directory entries and does not move the data. This makes it much faster, albeit riskier. It is probably the most polished of the three programs, which is to say not very. You know you have a forked file if it is type $00 and it seems fine but ProDOS 8 gives you I/O ERRORs if you so much as touch it. All programs are ModWare: Improve them as much as you want and redistribute them. Copy them far and wide. If you have something to say to me, I can be found at drucker@lclark.edu. Hope you enjoy the programs.