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dc42wrap was created several years ago to produce open-source
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operating system boot floppies for a PC that couldn't boot from
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CD-ROM, in an environment where the only physically accessible
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machines with floppy disk drives were Apple Macintoshes.
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"raw" disk image -> FTP -> dc42wrap
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FTP -> [Macintosh OS 7/8/9] -> physical floppy
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When Apple stopped including floppy drives in their hardware,
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this software fell into disuse ... until someone needed to copy
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the contents of an ancient pile of HFS-formatted floppies onto a
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floppy drive-less Macintosh running OS X, and the only physically
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accessible machines with floppy disk drives were PCs running an
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open-source operating system.
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Even though Apple now uses NDIF as their preferred disk image
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format, modern software still understands DiskCopy 4.2 files ...
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and OS X will happily mount those old HFS images on the desktop.
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physical floppy -> dd -> dc42wrap
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SSH -> [Macintosh OS X] -> mounted filesystem
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WWW: http://tools.ana.com/utils/
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--Eric
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eps+dc42wrap@ana.com
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