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From: george@swbatl.sbc.com (George D. Nincehelser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Bootable Disinfectant (WAS Re: Hilarious Disinfectant 2.0)
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.015753.12944@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: 19 Jul 90 01:57:53 GMT
References: <78@alchemy.UUCP>
Reply-To: george@swbatl.UUCP (George D. Nincehelser)
Organization: Advanced Technology Laboratory - Southwestern Bell Telephone
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In article <78@alchemy.UUCP> hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink) writes:
>
>Personally I really do not see the use in all this fuss over putting 
>disinfectant with a minimum system on a floppy.  What is the problem?  Those 
>that know how to create such disk wouldnot waste their time downloading suhc a 
>huge file, and those who are clueless about creating a system disk with just 
>system and finder plus the disinfectant application on it, will most likely 
>also by baffled by the taks of using Diskcopy or Stuffit to create their disk.
>
>Could someone please clarify to 'moi' poor lost soul why this seems to be such 
>an important issue?

Well, I don't know if it is an *important* issue, but I thought an
application that automatically puts Disinfectant and a minimal system
on a floppy would be nice for users less technical than ourselves.

Granted, if Stuffit and DiskCopy were used, it would be pointless.
What I had in mind was a file that you download and then double-click
on to activate.  It would then create the Disinfectant bootable floppy
automatically.  All the user would do is lock and label the floppy.

Using the auto-unstuffing application doesn't quite fit what I'm
thinking about since you would only get the *files* and not the
original disk *image*.  I think the image would best since you
could be sure that the resulting disk was clean.  In the file
scenario you possibly put the files on an already infected floppy.

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