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From: covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Looking for way to compress a whole floppy
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Date: 12 Dec 88 22:12:03 GMT
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there are two public domain program to archive complete disks (including
folders and subfolders). One is called CRUNCH or SCRUNCH and the other
is called the Magic Shadow Archiver. CRUNCH came out first but its main
hadicap is that you have to preformat the destination floppy with the 
correct format of the original floppy BEFORE running CRUNCH. And there
is no way to know what the original floppy's format was except trail and
error.

Magic Shadow Archiver produces an output file with 'MSA' as the filetype.
And MSA will correctly format the destination floppy as the 'MSA' file contains
that information.

I am not sure if thes programs are on GEnie, as they are public domain you
shouldn't have any problem locating them. 

Good luck!!!

Richard Covert