Re: Disk Copy-like app for the IIGS?

[lyleh888@yahoo.com (Lyle)]

ewright@pylon.edu (Eric Wright) wrote in message news:<ewright-ya02408000R2609022048040001@news.earthlink.net>...
> Does anyone know if there was ever an application like Disk Copy for the
> Mac released for GSOS?
> 
> Something that would create disk images on the GS desktop.(and I don't mean
> GS ShrinkIt archives BTW). A friend believes that GS+ magazine (the EGOed
> guys) made one and put it on one of their monthly disks, but I've never
> heard of it.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Eric Wright

Eric,

I've never used it, but Replicator v1.3.1 from the GS+ Vol. 4 No. 2
(Nov./Dec.1992) is the newest version and fixed some serious bugs from
earlier versions.  Be sure to use this latest version.  I have never
used Replicator.  The following is a paragraph from the docs of
Replicator.

"DiskCopy
In the 1992 May File Type Notes, Apple documented the specifications
for DiskCopy disk image files.  DiskCopy is a Macintosh application
created by Steve Christensen, and is used by Apple to distribute disk
images for several Apple products.  Both Macintosh and Apple II disks
can be archived using DiskCopy.  DiskCopy has a limitation in that it
can only create disk images of 3.5" floppy disks (either 800K or
1.4M).  Replicator can now read and duplicate DiskCopy disk image
files.  You cannot, however, save a DiskCopy disk image file with
Replicator.  When you open a DiskCopy disk image file, you will be
presented with a new window, a DiskCopy information window, which will
give you information about the DiskCopy disk image file.  Replicator
cannot correctly duplicate DiskCopy disk image files that contain tag
data.  If there is tag data, the checksum for the tag field will be
something other than $00000000."

Lyle