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- From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
- Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
- Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
- References: <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Jul23.194934.18926@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:24:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.194934.18926@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes...
- >In article <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> kls@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth L Shellberg) writes:
- >
- >>Very recently, there was a posting which recommended a DOS floppy
- >>formatter called fdformat, which will format a 1.2M 5.25 floppy to
- >>1.44M. Can anyone tell me where to find this program? It sounds like
- >>it would be very useful to me.
- >
- >I don't know where they might be found. After consulting Archie, the
- >only references to fdread were for some Unix package by the same name.
- >I remember it was posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc once, so you might
- >find it at one of its archive sites. Look for a package called
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- FDREAD is part of the FDFORM18 package. That's probably why archie
- couldn't find it standalone. It's available on Simtel and wuarchie.wustl.edu.
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- Srikanth
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