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Subject: RE: 5.0.4 format REVEALED and a poll (PLEASE READ THIS)
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Date: 27 Dec 90 01:07:00 GMT
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Actually, most people, especially in the developer community do not
use DiskCopy to read Diskcopy files.  SOmebody wrote an interesting
hack that's on the System 7.0beta disk that's a cdev.  It allows you
to *mount* a diskcopy file as if it were a real disk...pretty neat, 
I think.  I'm not sure that you'll be able to easily write a program
that reads the Diskcopy format (at least the Mac format) since I think
that the file pretty closely mimics HFS.  But since others has written
HFS->GS/OS translators, this shouldn't be impossible.  Since Diskcopy
files can be in Apple ][ format, (or even Lisa), I think that a reade
for the Apple ][ world would be a worthwhile project.

--Rick Ewing
  Vandebilt University