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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Re: Misc OS/2 questions (especially CSD installation)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.152529.18229@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:25:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.110425.5825@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- ...
- >Great! I had not tried to read them actually. You can't format to > 1.44MB
- >under OS/2 though on 1.44MB drives. I am not surprised, really, that OS/2
- >does read them. It should simply pick up the extra tracks & sectors form
- >the format type. My complaint is really that you can't specify something
- >like /F:82 on the format line because it tells you that the drive can't do
- >it!
-
- Not surprising. It's not like any other garden variety FORMAT pgm will
- do it.
-
- I assume you can do it under OS/2, in a specific DOS window, using FDFORMAT.
- Theoretically, it should work under simulated DOS, as well, right?
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