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- From: wirth@igd.fhg.de (Hanno Wirth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Trouble writing to MSDOS disk with MessyDos.
- Message-ID: <1810@igd.fhg.de>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 14:38:34 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.144431.8253@brt.deakin.edu.au> <1993Jan4.222235.7394@ra.msstate.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan4.222235.7394@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
- >
- > ajmex@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:
- >>I am have been using Messydos quite successfully for a while now to read
- >>files from a MSDOS disk, but I have had trouble writing to a MSDOS disk.
- [...stuff deleted...]
- >
- >>Does anyone have any idea why this is?
- >
- > Don't use messyfmt to format a disk. Use an I*M machine. Messyfmt
- > doesn't seem to work. The 386s here at work run DOS 5.0 and don't
- > acknowledge any floppy I have tried that I had formated with messyfmt.
-
- I also use MSH ver. 1.30, and I never had any problems using disks formatted
- with messyfmt on either PCs (any DOS version) or even Ataris here at work. You
- should check your format parameters.
-
- [...stuff deleted...]
- >
- > You're welcome. DJ.
- >
-
- Happy new Year!
-
- Hanno
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