On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:39:25AM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: > > > > Would it be helpful if there were an app to bypass all the woogery, that > > $newbie could drop a disk image on the app and have it written to a > > floppy for 'em? > > yes VERY helpful, this would probably not be all that hard to write, > you could probably do it in applescript as disc copy is scriptable and > i think there is even a way to set file types with applescript along > with locking the file. > > i don't know applescript well enough to do this and long ago lost > interest in dealing with macos on this level. > > at the moment its easier to create images in DOS (and easier yet on > unix of course) then in macos. how ironic. >
A friend of mine, Toby McNulty might be able to help. Toby has been playing around with a couple of hacks that could turn out to be very useful. A quick hack to repartition a hfs+ (maybe normal hfs too, i dunno) volume without reformatting, targeted directly towards people who aren't so comfortable with nuking all their work, but wanna give that linux thing a shot. He also wrote a quick port of dd to macos(!). Neither of these are especially polished, but from what I can tell, they work. I'll forward this thread to him.
