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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: DiskCopy disk images
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Message-ID: <53394@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 May 91 10:07:38 GMT
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In article <1991May23.060125.29918@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>[...] We even suspect our local dealership of tampering
>with System 7 DiskCopy images to encourage sales of the $99.00 manual package.
>(Correct me if I'm wrong, but the public release of DiskCopy can't save
>an image file -- I hope so, for security reasons.)

Every version of DiskCopy I've seen can save disk images as files--it's
very handy to save them to hard disks or network servers.  -- How is
that a security problem?  Is it easier to modify a disk image than a
disk?
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