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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: DiskCopy (was Re: System 6.0.5 available via anonymous FTP?)
Keywords: developer, duplication
Message-ID: <10464@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 17:11:39 GMT
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niko@pv01a0.vincent.iastate.edu (Schuessler Nikolaus E) writes:

>I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't good, I was just wondering why it was
>necessary to preserve the entire disk structure as opposed to archiving
>the individual files...

DiskCopy also preserves the boot blocks, which is important.  A StuffIt,
Compactor, tar, ... archive doesn't do this.

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