Re: suggestions for utility disk in Disk Copy image format

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

In article <55mbpc$ik9@news.emi.com>, Edhel Iaur <drsmooth@relex.com> wrote:
>shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>
>>Since the concensus was that it would be a good idea to put together a 3.5
>>disk of II utility programs and make it a Disk Copy image file and put it
>>on one of the ftp sites, I'm looking for suggestions as to what should go on
>>it. First question is should there be separate 8 bit and IIgs only disks. I
>>figure if everything would fit on one 800K disk, this would not be needed. 
>>Another thought I had would be to put the 8 bit stuff on a shrunk 5.25 disk
>>and include that file so it would be possible to get a 5.25 version as well.
>>So what all does everyone think should go on the disk? And should it be 
>>bootable? I'm leaning toward making it not bootable to avoid howls about
>>copyright infringement.
>
>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.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com