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- From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
- Subject: Re: Apple Stupidity (was Re: Where does ProDOS come from?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.031220.2090@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:12:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.022025.12705@unlv.edu> sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott
- Alfter) writes:
-
- [stuff deleted...]
-
- >(Suggestion to Andy Nicholas for the next version of ShrinkIt: how
- >about prohibiting the creation of disk archives of ProDOS disks?
- >It'll prevent the terminal stupidity of some people who like to use
- >disk archives for everything instead of file archives (which is what
- >you should always use for ProDOS volumes).)
-
- Believe it or not, there are reasons why you would want to use
- a disk archive as opposed to a file archive. The first thing, which
- isn't a big deal, are the "nodos" loaders... another reason would be
- that a disk packed by file can take a LONG time to unpack, as opposed
- to packing the disk as a disk archive.
-
- But granted, file archives are much nicer because you can
- unpack directly onto an HD or soemthing.
-
- > _/_ Scott Alfter Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
-
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