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Re: MacOS floppy creation



On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 08:09:57PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 06:09:43PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > if you choose the GPL as the licence that would seem to be necessary.
> > >
> > 
> > Of course! but it sounds like you'd rather just have the text file and put
> > instructions for Script Editor into the install docs.
> 
> well it depends on whether getting a .bin unpacked on the fly by
> mkhybrid is doable or not.  i think a text file executable by script
> editor is preferable to a binhexed binary.  consider the possibility
> of booting from a MacOS CD to make the floppies, without any writable
> MacOS partitions present.  (you said script editor is on the CDs as
> well no? iirc it is)

actually never mind.  we can't distribute a applet anyway. they
include proprietary Apple code which i suspect is not freely
distributable.  even if it is i object to distributing proprietary
software on the CDs.  

a text file it is.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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