Author: LaTeX (212.234.70.194)
Date: 03-03-2004 14:09
Hi !
You may make a confusion between two things, or is it me ?
.msa are floppies copy files. So your entire floppy disk is hold in a file. Am I right ?
If so, you certainly ask for a self extract archive such as zip files could be (.exe on PC and .prg on ATARI using STZIP for example), that will format a new floppy and uncompress everything within the file on the floppy. I never seen that kind of things for .msa but I haven't seen everything ! You need an extra program to do the job. I haven't got program names in memory but you will easily found a free (or shareware ?) one of them on the web to make a .msa a floppy. You will also need to format your floppy disk first the same as the original floppy was. The .msa file size could give you an idea of how many side/tracks/sectors was the original floppy that makes the .msa came out from. In fact there is no real compression in .msa files.
If your request was to execute a .prg that is contained in a .msa file without uncompressing the whole archive first, on ATARI, like Windows XP with zip files again, sorry but I have never seen that as well.
I hope this could help you a little...
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