Re: GS/OS and ProDOS-8 Question...

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Mike <tbogard1@MYhome.com> wrote:

> Supertimer wrote:
> > 
> > "Terence J. Boldt" <apple2@cgocable.net> wrote:
> > 
> > >Does anyone know for sure whether you can use an 8 bit copy program like
> > >Copy II Plus to copy GS/OS from a bunch of floppies to a hard drive?
> > 
> > Hi, you can use Copy II Plus to BLOCK COPY (ie. Volume Copy)
> > from a 1MB RAM disk to your ROM disk.  You cannot, however,
> > FILE copy.  That's because Copy II Plus cannot deal with extended
> > files which both GS/OS and MacOS uses.

[snip]

> You think doing a Bit Copy will work?

What, a bit copy of a floppy onto a hard drive?  How do you plan to do
that?  It wouldn't achieve anything anyway - a block copy (between
floppies of the same size) is sufficient to copy a GS/OS volume with
ProDOS-8 tools.

You only need to use a bit copy if a disk uses peculiar sector
organisation, e.g. for a copy protection scheme.

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