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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Misc OS/2 questions (especially CSD installation)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.222513.3441@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Dec15.181329.4755@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec16.231900.13266@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:25:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.231900.13266@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- >It was fine in the good old days when 1.2's were new and nobody could read
- >my high density disks. There was one machine where I copied everything back
- >to 360K before I gave it out.
- >There are people using flopticals that I can't read and 2.88MB drives etc
- >etc. If I label my disks adequately I could increase my bulk offline
- >storage by 20% which is quite valuable.
- >> If they do add it to the standard format command, though, make it
- >> undocumented and somewhat convoluted. Say, add the parameter /NS (for
- >> nonstandard) if you're going to create diskettes with /N:20 and /T:82.
- >Just the ability to say /T:82 and not have the thing respond that my
- >hardware doesn't support it (which it does) would be nice. It's 'obscure'
- >enough that the user who doesn't understand the concept probably won't end
- >up playing with those options. The code seems to be there already but it's
- >overly protective.
-
- As long as they require that extra parameter -- I suggest "/NS" for
- "nonstandard" -- and plaster warning messages about it, I have no
- problem with allowing /N:20 and /T:82 (or whatever) in OS/2's FORMAT.
- (I'm sure some enterprising programmer can come up with a FORMAT
- substitute, in fact -- it shouldn't be that difficult.) Why the /NS
- parameter? If you didn't require something extra, it would be far to
- easy to type /T:89 (or some other typo).
-
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