Re: suggestions for utility disk in Disk Copy image format

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur)]

shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>In article <55mbpc$ik9@news.emi.com>, Edhel Iaur <drsmooth@relex.com> wrote:

>>It should be a .SHK, so individual files can be extracted onto
>>whatever disk is desired.  I think it should be unbootable, for the
>>simple reason of making the archive smaller.  By now, everyone
>>probably has a billion DOS 3.3 and ProDOS versions they can copy off
>>their own disks.

>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.
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