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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Are PS/2 floppy drives better under OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.202414.9359@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:24:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.012642.29068@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec12.221015.12402@midway.uchicago.edu> <1gev8gINNbid@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1gev8gINNbid@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
- >>Rumor has it that the next group of PS/2s will have OS/2-aware (and
- >>controlled) autoejecting 2.88 MB floppy drives. There will still be
- >>manual eject button. Just thought I'd throw in a little tidbit here.
- >Cooool.
- >Once of nicest parts about formatting floppies on a Sun, that you can
- >tell it to eject when done, so you know when to put the next disk in.
- >(btw, maybe you can mention to IBM to add a /beep option to format.exe,
- >so you know when it's finished. one of the drawbacks of having such
- >excellent multitasking, is that you forget to check the window to
- >see if it's done formatting)
-
- You can do this quite easily in -- you guessed it -- REXX. But, now
- that I mention it, I leave the task up to you. :-)
-
- Just to get you started, you could call it BFORMAT. Use the SysBeep
- function in REXXUTIL to generate the beep (you can even play a short
- musical interlude :-)). Prompt first for the diskette label and
- perhaps the diskette size (to make it really friendly).
-
- I expect to see BFORMAT appearing at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu within two
- weeks. :-)
-
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