Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!taob From: taob@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Brian Tao) Subject: Re: Heatseeker Organization: M.B. Cormier INC. Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 16:15:22 EDT Message-ID: References: <1991Jun23.064304.3877@mcs.anl.gov> Sender: _taob@micor.ocunix.on.ca curtis@.uucp (Jeffrey Curtis ) writes: > car salesman." Unfortunately, that seems to be the only way to catch people' > attention, though. I offered the software on "another" international Apple > network about six months ago and received ZERO responses. So I was just tryi > a different approach, and it has proved highly successful. If you're talking about the Apple conference on Fidonet, maybe you should try again. I would tone down your "used car salesman" approach a bit though... the moderator (Dennis) is really jumpy these days because of some illegal activity on the net. Don't think he'd appreciate anything that even hints of "virus". :-/ > Fifth, I say that I have "guts" because the technology is dangerous in > many aspects from a programmer's perspective. But, of course, I can't go int > detail here; I'd be removing my trade secret status. ;-) If you are doing low-level block read/writes (Copy II Plus does that when locking and unlocking large batches of files), I hope you will be around when/if the directory structure of ProDOS changes. Wouldn't be very nice if Heatseeker accidentally trashed my ProDOS 8 v3.0 disks a couple years down the road...