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Re: suggestions for utility disk in Disk Copy image format
- Subject: Re: suggestions for utility disk in Disk Copy image format
- From: laine@rainbow.rmii.com (Laine Houghton)
- Date: 1996/11/03
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
- References: <55e4ur$nj9@europa.frii.com>
When I was using just my //e. There was nothing I hated more
then sinking my teeth into a juicy sounding software archive,
spending the time online down loading the thing and finding
it a worthless 800K disk file.
Randy Shackelford (shack@deimos.frii.com) 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.
: --
: Randy Shackelford
: shack@frii.com
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