>To demonstrate the error, to someone who was sure
>Macs don't do this kind of thing, I put the file that had the error in
>the trash and tried to copy the file from the hard drive. It worked.
What this is demonstrating is that the diskette had a bad sector on it.
The first file contained this sector, so the second copy of the file was
placed, apparently, on good diskette sectors. Had you emptied the trash
first, the second copy would probably have been placed onto the same
sectors as the first, resulting in the error again.
>The longer term solution is to get a real computer :)
The longer term solution is to reinitialize a floppy disk that's having
problems. If the reinitialize fails, throw the disk away.
Jim Tobin
tobinj@apple.com