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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
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Subject: Re: Is there anyway to know a disk has been copied?
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Date: 14 Apr 90 22:56:01 GMT
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jimli@milton.acs.washington.edu (Jimmy Li) writes:
>I'd like to know if there is any way to know if a floppy disk has been copied.
>It doesn't seem to be possible to me. But a friend of mine insists that it
>could be done. 

You can verify the copy with diskcomp which just does a byte by byte, sector
by sector compare of two disks and reports any differences.  Obviously if they
compare ok then the disk is a duplicate.  If you mean if there's a flag on the
disk that indicates that it has been copied, that I don't know.
 
     // JCA

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