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From: stephens@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Philip J Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Heatseeker
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.065559.6985@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
Date: 22 Jun 91 06:55:59 GMT
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Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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>For one, I wouldn't touch this offer with a ten foot pole -- it sounds
>like the perfect scenario for introducing and propagating a virus:  a)
>the program sounds too good to be true, and b) the author refuses to
>supply source.

  I think you might be jumping the gun here.  Because:

  a) Copy ][+ is nowhere near the faster disk utility around. 
Heatseeker sounds more along the lines of Locksmith, which is damn
fast.

  b) The note about not supplying source just sounded like exagerated
pride to me.

  The truth is, even a 5 1/4 " floppy drive can read a disk
sequentially in 8 seconds flat, so with a bit of inginuity (sp?) I'm
sure someone could have written something like Heatseaker.  (Although
I probably should look at the figures given again to see how close they
are to the practical limits of the drive).

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