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From: jbaker@gmu90x.gmu.edu (jbaker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Nib 2.0 arrives!
Message-ID: <2562@gmu90x.gmu.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 03:19:29 GMT
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Reply-To: jbaker@gmu90x.UUCP (John Baker)
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
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barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>	Well, I just got my copy of NIB 2.0 in the mail, after many months
>of waiting.  NIB 1.0 was a shareware disk copier program (for copy-protected
>software).  If you sent in the shareware fee, you were put on a list to
>receive version 2.0 for free.  2.0 is a COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, so don't give
>it away!
...
>	One quirk:  when exiting, NIB instructs you to remove all floppies
>from their drives, or else the Amiga may crash!  I don't want to guess
>what's going on here, but I duly pop my disks out when asked.

When an exact copy of a disk is made, and both disks are inserted at once,
AmigaDOS gets the two disks confused.  If you then eject them, the system
will generally crash.  This happens with most commercial disk copiers, not
just NIB.  It will not happen with Duplicate, since Commodore's copier
gives the new copies a new disk creation date, and allows AmigaDOS to
distinguish between the two disks.


>                                                        Dan
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John Baker
jbaker@gmu.edu