NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/msdos/apps/5596

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From: [e-mail] (D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Floppy disk "image" software available?
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Date: 16 Nov 92 17:53:42 GMT
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From article <[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (Steve Gabrilowitz):
> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Eric Bird) writes:
> |> I'm looking for software which will allow me to make "images" of floppy
> |> disks--i.e., copy all the contents of one disk into a single file, and then
> |> reproduce the disk, sector for sector, later on.

> Teledisk is the only software I know of that does what you want.

Diskdupe allows you to do this also.  I'm sure I downloaded it from
Simtel or one of it's mirror sites.  The program is fairly nice, but
the user interface requires you to enter stuff that the program should
really be able to guess.  But it's not that bad.

But that's not what made me dump it.  It's shareware - with a registation
price of $79 or something like that.  I'm sorry, but $79 for a program
that just copies floppies is a bit steep - no matter how well it copies
those floppies.  There's even a "professional" version that goes for
$150 or some other ridiculous price.

Dave Haertig
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