McCloud

Short:    McCloud: simple and quick command to *hide* a floppy disk!
Uploader: robiz@mbox.vol.it (Roberto Bizzarri)
Author:   Roberto Bizzarri, robiz@mbox.vol.it
Type:     disk/misc
Requires: OS 2.0 (v37)
Version:  1.2
Replaces: disk/misc/McCloud1_1.lha

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                        * M c C l o u d   v 1 . 2 *
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                  Written by Roberto Bizzarri � 1995-1997
                          English doc by Phalanx
                                (Freeware)

I N T R O D U C T I O N
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McCloud will forbid any floppy disk access on the specified disk.  It will
likely be useful in case you don't want unskilled people to jam with your
disks.  McCloud won't provide you any data encryption, it just modifies the
specified disk's bootblock to render it invisible to your computer.

The reason why I decided only to modify the bootblock is principally the
security: should the disk present any read/write error, you'll get your
datas back with a common program like DiskSalv, QBTools and so on, while a
full encryption might be more unhandy.  Anyway McCloud's aim is just to
protect a bit your disks, not to grant full security.

If you insert in any drive a disk protected by McCloud, no icon will
appear, and, if asked via CLI/Shell, the Amiga will confirm the absence of
any disk in your drive!  Magical, isn't it?  :)

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Changes from v1.1 :

   *  new arguments template
   *  added password support
   *  fixed bug whith bootable floppy disks

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