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- From: djarvis@u.washington.edu (David Jarvis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip Tools Required?
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 08:04:10 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- >: I'm considering buy a ZIP drive for use my my A4000 (WarpEngine equipped)
- >: and I was wondering what the Zip Tools from Squirrel actually provide.
- >: Is is possible to format cartridges without them?
-
- >
- > You do not need the Zip tools. I just use RDprep to write a RDB and
- >then do a quick format of the disk. Works great!
- >
-
- This is true, if you are knowledgeable enough, and want to go to the time
- of using the other tools, getting the shell commands from Aminet, etc.
-
- I have Zip Tools and really like it. I do not have to wonder if I am
- formating something correctly, with RDB's etc. You just hit CTRL-ALT-Z
- and the ZipTools requester comes up with both the PC and Amiga options
- ready to be acted on. I just click on whichever format I want that disk,
- and click on "format". It takes 5 or 6 minutes, but then the Zip is
- ready to use, RDB's or whatever all taken care of.
-
- The other nice thing about them is the selections from the same requester
- to write protect the disk. For my Zips with hard drive back-ups on them,
- I chose Write Protected, to avoid accidental erasures, etc, and hopefully
- viruses also. Then, when I want to update those disks, I choose
- "Unprotect until Eject", and I can update the disk, with the Write
- Protection set automatically when I eject it.
-
- I could do all of this with free utilities etc., I just like the
- convenience and reliablility of ZipTools. Also, it is easier to format an
- IBM Zip disk with these tools than with the tools available on the Mac,
- according to my brother.
-
- David Jarvis
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