ge@mcnc.UUCP (George Entenman) (09/26/85)
A friend of mine has an expensive software package for her ibm-xt. She wants me to use it to do some work for her on my zenith z-150, which doesn't have a hard disk. She warned me to be careful with the floppy because they apparently get trashed easily and cost $50 to replace (outrageous price in my opinion, after paying $1200). I would like to make a backup copy of this floppy disk. I feel that this is ethically okay because she has paid for the software and because I will work for her (without pay). So my question is: if I put protection tape on the floppy, is there any way that attempting to copy the floppy can possibly damage the disk and require another $50 replacement? It seems to me that if you can't write to the disk, attempting to copy it can't hurt it. George Entenman MCNC