Write-protected ZIP disks
As of Athena 9.2, Zip drives are being phased out. While support for
existing Zip drives will continue for the short term, broken zip drives
will not be replaced. For storage of large files, we recommend using
recordable compact discs.
For more information, see our stock answer "Making CD-R and CD-RW discs
on Athena" in the "Workstations" category.
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Zip disks can be password- and write-protected via software.
The mtools "mzip" command can be used to deal with these settings, but
this is currently only available on Suns.
mzip -q z:
will tell you the protection status, and you can remove write
protection with:
mzip -w z:
See the man page for more options.
Note that the ZipTools utility disk comes password protected. On Dos
or on a Mac, the password is automatically removed once the ZipTools
have been installed. "mzip -w" will try to guess the password for
you, but if it doesn't get it right try "APlaceForYourStuff" or
"APlaceForMyStuff".
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