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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: DiskCopy (was Re: System 6.0.5 available via anonymous FTP?)
Keywords: developer, duplication
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Date: 26 Sep 90 15:22:50 GMT
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In article <1990Sep26.044408.28319@news.iastate.edu> niko@iastate.edu (Schuessler Nikolaus E) writes:
>  It's in pub/dts/sw.license.  you need the file 'disk copy' or whatever
>to undo the archives.... pretty strange format....

I think DiskCopy is wonderful for software distribution.  It reads a floppy
into memory.  Once the floppy is in memory, you can save its image to disk
(that's what the 6.0.5 image files are), or make multiple copies of the
floppy.  What's more, you can load a saved image, and make copies from that.

It's a convenient way for those of us who don't have disk duplicators to
make copies of our software to distribute.  Since the image files can be
saved on a hard drive, you don't have to worry about the "master" floppy
going bad (I know I'm not the only one with piles of bad disks...).  Not
only that, but you have a convenient one-file package to put out for FTP,
should you choose to do so.  I'm sure that there are other products that
do the same thing, but DiskCopy's free (a big advantage, if you ask me).

I'm grateful to Steve Christensen and Apple for DiskCopy.


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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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