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Several years ago, dc42wrap was created to produce open-source operating
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system boot floppies for a PC that could not boot from CD-ROM, in an environment
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where the only physically accessible machines with floppy disk drives were Apple
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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, this
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software fell into disuse, until someone needed to copy the contents of an
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ancient pile of HFS-formatted floppies onto a floppy drive-less Macintosh
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running OS X, and the only physically accessible machines with floppy disk
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drives were PCs running an open-source operating system.
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Even though Apple now uses NDIF as their preferred disk image format,
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modern software still understands DiskCopy 4.2 files, and OS X will happily
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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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