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- From: morro@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
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- Subject: FDFORMAT/FDREAD for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.230820.2772@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 23:08:20 -0500
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club
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- Hello Everyone,
-
- Has anyone come across an OS/2 2.0 version of Christopher Hochstatter
- excellent par of programs FDFORMAT/FDREAD ? These programs enable one to
- format floppy diskettes to higher capacity (DS/DD to 830 K for example !)
- on regular 1.2 M and 1.44 M drives. The latest version that I've seen is
- 1.8 however, FDREAD does appear to run in any way shape or form under OS/2.
- I've tried both full screen and windowed versions of both DOS and OS/2 with
- the same result - some gibrish scrolling across the screen and not much
- else. There are no error messages or anything, but I still can't read
- the FDFORMATed diskettes. I am a bit desperate as I have a lot of these
- 830 K and 1.77 M floppies but because I went to OS/2 and HPFS only system
- I have no easy way of reading these. If anyone has a knowledge of newer
- version of these programs or perhaps knows how to reach Mr. Hochstatter
- himself (I would be willing to work on porting these to OS/2, if necessary),
- I would very much appreciate hearing about it. Thanks in advance for
- any and all help.
-
- Best Regards to All,
- John Duchowski
-