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Article #35469Re: Looking for way to compress a whole floppy
From: Richard E. Covert
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1988 22:12
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1988 22:12
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there are two public domain program to archive complete disks (including folders and subfolders). One is called CRUNCH or SCRUNCH and the other is called the Magic Shadow Archiver. CRUNCH came out first but its main hadicap is that you have to preformat the destination floppy with the correct format of the original floppy BEFORE running CRUNCH. And there is no way to know what the original floppy's format was except trail and error. Magic Shadow Archiver produces an output file with 'MSA' as the filetype. And MSA will correctly format the destination floppy as the 'MSA' file contains that information. I am not sure if thes programs are on GEnie, as they are public domain you shouldn't have any problem locating them. Good luck!!! Richard Covert
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!noao!asuvax!gtephx!covertr From: covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Looking for way to compress a whole floppy Message-ID: <4037e250.14e07@gtephx.UUCP> Date: 12 Dec 88 22:12:03 GMT References: <1926@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Organization: gte Lines: 19