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From: gus@Shasta.ARPA
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Subject: HFS compatability and Software backup - Simple solutions
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Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 21:21:26 EST
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There seems to be a large number of messages on the net that sound like
either, "I can't get xxx to work with HFS" or "How do I back up xxx?" There
is a simple procedure for dealing with each of these problems.

HOW TO GET A PROGRAM TO WORK WITH HFS

1) Buy the program
2) Send in your registration card
3) Wait till around February for an update
4) If an update does not come, and the program still does not work, then
	call the company.

Remember that a lot of companies may be holding off until Apple announces 
new products to make sure that they did	not make any dumb mistakes. Many 
people are still wondering why the Hard Disk 20 was released with the 5.0
finder early in the first place instead of waiting until now with the rest
of the products, especially since people are only now starting to get their
HD 20's.

HOW TO BACK UP ANY PIECE OF SOFTWARE

1) Go to your local dealer and check out the software you are interested in.
2) IF the software is more than 1 month old THEN
	a) Buy the program
	b) Buy the current release of COPY II Mac.
   ELSE
	a) Buy the program
	b) Note the current release of COPY II Mac but don't buy it unless
		you already know that your program is already copyable with
		it.
	c) Wait 2 weeks to 1 month
	d) Check the new release of COPY II Mac.
	e) If the release is the same as the previous one, go back to step
		b.
	f) Buy the current release of Copy II Mac.
3) Use Copy II Mac to backup the program that you just bought.

Copy II Mac by Central Point Software is far and away be best supported
program available for the Mac, if you count the number of released versions
as a measure of support. I cannot see why software companies insist on
pouring thousands of dollars into copy protection which from past experience
has lasted less than a month at worst. Jazz, perhaps the most sophisticated
protection system known to date lasted less than 2 weeks. Excel relied on its
P-Code interpreter in order to be un-copyable for at most 1 month. 

Copy II Mac is available at my local dealer for $22.95 (ComputerWare, Palo
Alto, CA) and is certainly worth every penny I paid for it. Unlike on the IBM
PC, no reliable method has been found to write a mark on a Mac disk that can
be READ but not WRITTEN by the Mac's IWM. Physically damaging the media a-la
prolock would require that the disk be left un-write-protected. Anyone
serious about keeping their valuable software intact will see how
unacceptable this would be. (You DO write-protect all of your master disks,
don't you?)