On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> > On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Colin Wood wrote:
> > 
> > > > I used silverlining to partition my zip disk.  However, APS will also
> > > > work.  The faq for partitioning a zip disk on macbsd.com provides an
> > > > erroneous URL for this.  The only jagubox mirror that still seems to carry
> > > > it is:
> > > > ftp://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/mac/
> > > > 
> > > > To whoever might change the INSTALL file, two erroneous URLs are listed in
> > > > this file, including the original site that is being mirrored.
> > > > Just FYI ;)
> > > 
> > > I'll have to take a look at the Zip-HOWTO.  Since APS is commercial
> > > software (I think), we probably shouldn't have a pointer to it all...
> > 
> > APS is shareware (and it's pretty good to). Silverlinning is commercial 
> > though.
> 
> Actually, I don't think that it is.  If you can find documentation which
> proves this wrong, please do so.  However, I believe that I have read in

Actually, http://www.apstech.com/aps-update.html proves you _right_.

> the past that the APS formatter is just an OEM version of someone else's
> formatter which is distributed with APS drives.  People started posting it
> on the 'Net, and now everyone thinks it's free (or something like that).
> If you can find licensing terms on it, though, I'd love to see them, since
> at least version 2.7.3 seems to work pretty damn well for formatting
> NetBSD partitions ;-)

Ooooppps! That's right, APS Disk Tools is definetly a commercial product. 
I was mislead by the pointers I found to it on the net and by the ftp 
site I got it from. The latest version (4.0.9) costs $99.95 unless you 
buy an APS disk in which case you get it bundled with the disk.

I guess that with the newer version of Mkfs that converts Mac partitions, 
the point is moot since that's what people should be using if they dont 
own a commercial formater.

> 
> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
> Consultant                                        Rice University
> Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX
> 

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