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- From: Eric.J.Baumgartner@dartmouth.edu (Eric J. Baumgartner)
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- Subject: Re: Duplicating Coppy Protected Floppies
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.152914.29676@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 15:29:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.223121.9053@mercury.unt.edu>
- Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu> writes:
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- > Also, for what it's worth, the invisible "key" files also reference their
- > physical location on the drive, so simply copying them won't work. At
- > least, this is my theory from OpCode's warnings to be sure to de-install
- > their programs before performing a defragmentation on a drive.
-
- Yeah, this also means that when your drive goes south with their
- software installed on it, you're hosed, as just happened to us. You
- have to contact Opcode to get another floppy to reinstall on another
- drive. I understand Opcode's concern about starving musicians, but from
- my lab's point of view, it's just a waste of time.
-
- In terms of copying the floppy in order to have a backup disk, I
- believe Opcode ships two floppies; the second is your backup disk. At
- least, that was the case last I checked, which was prior to Vision 1.4.
-
- Eric Baumgartner * ebaum@dartmouth.edu
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