Re: suggestions for utility disk in Disk Copy image format

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <55u63j$26a@news.emi.com>, Edhel Iaur <drsmooth@relex.com> wrote:

>>Uh, pay attention. I'm talking a Disk Copy image, which is a Mac format for
>>converting floppy disks into files. So it would necessarily be a whole disk.
>>Unless it's a Stuffit archive or self-axtracting, it'll be a little over 800K
>>regardless of the amount of space used on the disk.
>>The impetus is to provide people an easy way to start from scratch on an
>>Apple II while downloading software on a Mac. There is positively no need
>>to set up yet another utility disk in Apple II format.
>
>I don't have a Mac, so I didn't know what Disk Copy was.  If you
>re-read my post (or, as you might say, "pay attention"), tho, you will
>note that there is still a useful opinion contained therein: the
>exclusion of a DOS.  If compressed, the exclusion of a DOS will make
>the archive smaller, and even if not compressed, the exclusion of DOS
>will allow more stuff to be shoved into your image.

Here's a rule of thumb I go by: If I see something I don't know what is (like
"Disk Copy" in this case), I figure I might not know what is being discussed
so I don't jump in until I catch on.

Now about the putting an OS on the disk, I think it would be handy, especially
if someone has just a box and no software at all. It really doesn't take up
a lot of space to include the PRODOS and BASIC.SYSTEM files. But I don't want
the P word to pop up so it ain't likely.

Judging from the response to my question, I'm starting to wonder if it's
worthwhile at all.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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