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- VERSION 1.1 ENHANCEMENTS TO DISKANL.COM
-
- The automatic diskette-detection algorithm has been
- improved. When determining whether a diskette has 40 or 80
- tracks, DISKANL now attempts to read ALL sectors on tracks 40 AND
- 41 before deciding that a diskette contains 80 tracks. Before,
- DISKANL would only read one sector on track 40.
-
- The command-line parser has been improved. Specifying
- something on the command with no valid drive letters will no
- longer cause unpredicatable operation.
-
- The following command-line options are now available. They
- are useful if a copy protection scheme fools DISKANL's diskette
- recognition algorithm:
-
- /1 forces DISKANL to treat the diskette as single-sided.
-
- /4 forces DISKANL to read only 40 tracks (as on 5 1/4" DS/DD
- diskettes) even if the program thinks there are 80.
-
- /8 forces DISKANL to read only 8 sectors per track
- (DOS 1.x format).
-
- /9 forces DISKANL to read only 9 sectors per track (DS/DD
- format).