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    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 14 15:16:19 2025
    I'd like to open the U436295 - OPSYS image, but 7zip and WinImage both
    give an error that the *.IMG is not an image file. I would like to
    snuffle around the diskette.

    https://www.ardent-tool.com/AIX_1-3/U436295.img

    It seems that the *.IMG has the *.BFF diskette image inside. WinImage
    and 7zip both balk in opening the IMG...

    Looking for any man pages or text-ish readable files...

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  • From Rick Ekblaw@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Tue Jul 15 10:34:09 2025
    Louis Ohland wrote:
    I'd like to open the  U436295 - OPSYS image, but 7zip and WinImage both
    give an error that the *.IMG is not an image file. I would like to
    snuffle around the diskette.

    https://www.ardent-tool.com/AIX_1-3/U436295.img

    It seems that the *.IMG has the *.BFF diskette image inside. WinImage
    and 7zip both balk in opening the IMG...

    Looking for any man pages or text-ish readable files...

    I *think* (but am not sure, of course, I've slept too many times since
    then) that I may have created those image files back when I was doing
    Special High Intensity Training for AIX 1.3 on my 9590. If so, I would
    have used dd under AIX 1.3 or (under Windows XP) either rawrite or EMT4WIN.

    If I wasn't so lazy I'd pull the image and try extracting it using rawrite/EMT4WIN on my 8187 running Windows XP, but at the moment I'm not
    in the mood.

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 15 20:00:42 2025
    On 14.07.2025 15:16 Uhr Louis Ohland wrote:

    I'd like to open the U436295 - OPSYS image, but 7zip and WinImage
    both give an error that the *.IMG is not an image file. I would like
    to snuffle around the diskette.

    https://www.ardent-tool.com/AIX_1-3/U436295.img

    It seems that the *.IMG has the *.BFF diskette image inside. WinImage
    and 7zip both balk in opening the IMG...

    Looking for any man pages or text-ish readable files...

    I dunno about that, but IIRC I had a similar issue and didn't find a
    solution. IIRC those images were created by the backup command in AIX.

    Maybe you can get a virtual AIX test system in the IBM cloud to try.

    --
    kind regards
    Marco

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