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From: stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen)
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: <10467@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 18:26:17 GMT
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niko@iastate.edu (Schuessler Nikolaus E) writes:
>[...], I was just wondering why it was
>necessary to preserve the entire disk structure as opposed to archiving
>the individual files...

Because that's what it's designed to do.  DiskCopy was originally written to
handle doing mass disk duplication quickly.  The image files came about because
it was deemed necessary to have a convenient way to electronically send disks
from place to place.  Since the Mac can read more than just Mac disks (i.e.,
ProDOS, MS-DOS), it's nice to be able to just read the disk and not care
what's on it, rather than having to know about all the possible file systems
you can work with...

steve
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