Self mounting image

A self mounting image is a disk image format, commonly found on the Macintosh platform, that is encapsulated in an application that mounts it as a file system. When downloaded from the Internet, they are often in a BIN, BinHex or StuffIt file. Despite being an application, they often have a .smi file extension. Disk Copy, the application commonly used to handle disk images in Mac OS was an optional program not part of the standard installation. S... more
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