Re: Disk Images of All Apple Disks

[salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <3A5AAAEF.6F5AB284@qwest.net>, olcott  <olcott@qwest.net> wrote:
>This might even be the BEST solution to my problem.
>Although the other solution was very useful for getting
>stuff from the net through my Intel PC to my Apples,
>this solution might be the simplest way to get all of
>my Apple stuff back up to my intel pc for CDR
>archival backup, as long as the intel pc can handle
>the disk image files that Disk Copy produces...
>
>In the Intel PC world there is no operating system
>software for creating disk images, and the disk copy
>software ONLY copies from one disk to another.

Bzzt!  dd works fairly well (under Linux or (maybe) *BSD anyway).  While
Win9x/NT/2K might not have disk-imaging software, there are plenty of
programs out there, such as WinImage (very cool) and RAWRITE (which is a
command-line app that runs under DOS).

If you're looking to archive your stuff, though, a disk archive is about the
worst way to go.  For copy-protected stuff, it might be the only way to go,
but for everything else (especially if it's already on a ProDOS-formatted
floppy) you should create file archives with ShrinkIt.  There are even tools
available, such as NuLib, that will let you manipulate ShrinkIt archives on
non-Apple II systems.

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