User`s guide

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From: Rubywand
010- What is Copy II Plus and where can I get it?
Copy II Plus is the best general purpose utility for copying disks and
managing files on DOS 3.3 and ProDOS diskettes. Most of the Copy II Plus
functions also work with disk images (e.g. .dsk files) on emulators; however,
COPY DISK and FORMAT are important functions which do not work correctly with
emulators. Good versions which handle both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS files are 7.x -
8.x.
Note: Versions 9.x require at least an enhanced IIe and have a few notable bugs.
Version 9.0's Catalog Sort option can mess up your directory. Neither version
9.0 nor 9.1 works correctly with the /RAM5 RAM disk. The best added capability
of Version 9.x is being able to compare files.
No version of Copy II Plus will copy files which include a resource part,
usually called a "resource fork". In some cases the copy may seem to be
successful; but, it will be a mess. Only some, relatively new, IIgs files
include a resource fork. No DOS 3.3 files or files intended for access under
ProDOS 8 have resource forks.
The most versatile releases of the utility are, probably, Versions 7.1 and
7.2. They include the capability for creating disk images. The images are not
compatible with popular emulators; but, they are a handy way to archive DOS 3.3
disks on a hard disk.
For places to get Copy II Plus in ShrinkIt shrinked disk and emulator disk
image files, refer to Q&A 007 above.
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From: tturner, Rubywand, Greg Buchner, Labelas Enoreth
011- How do I use Copy II Plus to create and convert IMG
files?
First, to the best of my knowledge, only versions 6.x and 7.x of Copy II
Plus can create a disk image file (called an "IMG" file). The feature was gone
by version 8, for sure.
To create an IMG file you COPY--> DISK to an over-size target volume.
Versions 6 and 7 will create a type "IMG" file instead of complaining about a
"size mismatch" (which is what other versions of Copy II Plus do). It is fairly
common to end the name of the new IMG file with ".img".
Doing the opposite lets you convert an IMG file back to diskette. That is,
you select the COPY --> DISK option and pick the large volume with the IMG file
as Source and a blank unformatted 5.25" diskette in the Slot 6, Drive 1 drive as
Destination. You pick an IMG file on the Source volume and it is transferred to
the diskette.
Copy II Plus IMG files are not compatible with DSK2FILE or ASIMOV and will
not work on emulators such as AppleWin. Also, not all files ending with ".img"