Re: suggestions for utility disk in Disk Copy image format

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur)]

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.
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