Re: Best way to copy a reg. 3.5" GS disk?

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

profdredd wrote:
> 
> The SAFEST way to copy 3.5" disks on a IIgs is with the Finder. I
> believe the method is to drop one disk icon onto another. If you only
> have 1 3.5" drive, you'll have to manually eject the source disk,
> insert the destination and then drop the ghosted source-disk icon onto
> the destination disk icon. If you have enough memory the copy proceeds
> quite well.
> 
> As far as formatting goes, I don't know of any copier that doesn't do
> formatting as a separate step on 3.5" disks. I remember being impressed
> with ZZcopy's speed, but can't substantiate the notion that it won't
> also format as a separate step.
	
	This was a common thing on the Amiga.  I believe the data in a given
track is just copied from one to the other -- that is, the data and the
underlying format, to put it in a rather odd way -- but I think that was
what happened, in one fell swoop, track by track.  There definitely was
no format pre-copy on the Amiga in any common disk copy prog.  I guess
it was more like Copy II+'s bit or sector copy. 



bp
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