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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Disk Muncher/Cruncher
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Date: 18 Oct 90 20:23:57 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.183332.1697@hoss.unl.edu> greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer) writes:
>I remember seeing a disk copy program called both Disk Muncher and Disk
>Cruncher.  About all I can remember of it is that it would copy 5.25"
>disks in 4 passes and would recognize a 16K II+ RAM expansion.  Does
>anyone out there remember this program?  Is it legal to distribute it?
>What company published it?

	I'm almost positive that Disk Muncher and Disk Cruncher (they were
two different programs I think) are simply public domain (or at most freeware)
programs written by someone and distributed over modems... (probably some 'kid'
wrote it too).

	Like DDDpro... Remember that? After most of the DDDs came out (but 
before 5.0), then DDDpro and a few other programs that would handle the REL
files that DDD made... (There was one that sort of "faked" a desktop 
environment.. That was PBH I remember.. Pretty Boy Hack or something like that)

	But back to my point about DDDpro.. Know who wrote that? Andy Nicholas.
Yes, -the- Andy Nicholas of ShrinkIT/ShrinkIT GS fame.  [And Brian Greenestone
wrote a shareware game that's copyrighted 1985 I think].

	I probably still have Disk Muncher and/or Disk Cruncher around here. I
try to keep a lot of the old programs... Mostly for "old time's sake", since 
there are usually newer and better things to do the same thing (and often
newer programs will deal with the files made by the older programs)...

	DigiCopy GS is sort of the evolution of Disk Muncher for the GS...

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