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- From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Apple Stupidity (was Re: Where does ProDOS come from?)
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 11:36:49 GMT
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- > From: sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
- > (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).)
-
- Getting rid of features from a utility program because some people decide to
- abuse some of its features seems pretty silly to me.
-
- Besides, prior to GS Shrinkit the ONLY way of handling forked files was via a
- shrunk disk (Transprog was distributed this way, as were most other Cdevs).
-
- Besides shrinking a disk includes the boot blocks of the disk...which can be
- useful for those disks out of europe that can be read as prodos disks, but
- have a bootstrap on the boot blocks that is different than that provided by
- Apple.
-
- Currently only those disks that are bootable, in my opinion need to be shrunk
- as disks. Things like ZZCopy, and various FTA demos, etc.
-
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