stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen) (03/24/90)
It sounds like a number of you are having problems with the DiskCopy application. I, of course, can't duplicate the problems I've read about, but I still want to know about them so that if what you're seeing is programmer error and not pilot error, I can try to fix it and make everyone happy. So...if the problems persist, send a DETAILED description of the problem to MacDTS@Applelink.apple.com (not to me...pleeaassee). That is, "I was doing this and this and this, and then it did this, which I don't think is right." Be sure to include what kind of Mac you were running it on, how much memory, etc. If you're using a 128K or 512K Mac, you can guess what the response will be. :-) ----- DiskCopy will work on a 1 meg Mac--if you're a masochist. It requires around 839K of RAM in order to copy an 800K disk, plus a bit more for the application itself, so what with all the other things that live in RAM, it's a tight fit to get everything in. At least 2 meg of RAM is definitely the way to go. OK, so now you've got it running and want to make a disk out of that image file. Select "Load Disk Image" from the File menu and do the standard file bit to find and select the image file. When it's done, click on the "Start Copy" button, insert the appropriate floppy disk and away you go. If you get an error somewhere along the line, that's because something's not right, like there's not enough available RAM to hold the entire image, or you forgot to un-write-protect the floppy, or the floppy itself is of questionable reliability. So send your cards and letters to the above address and they'll bundle them all up and drop them on me. steve