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- From: MORRO@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU ("John K. Duchowski")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: FDFORMAT and TIMESET under OS/2
- Message-ID: <01GNHR6P4BKG94EPXC@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 15:42:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Lines: 32
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- Hello Everyone,
-
- I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find an OS/2 version of two
- very useful programs FDFORMAT/FDREAD and TIMESET. The former allows to
- increase the capacity of floppies (360 K to 820 K, for example) and the latter
- sets the computer clock by synchronizing it to either the NIST or the Naval
- Observatory Atomic Clock.
-
- Both of these worked wonderfully under DOS but FDFORMAT/FDREAD seems to do
- something bizzare under DOS Session - the screen scrolls for some time and
- then a whole bunch of illegible characters show up follwoed by a beep. I
- haven't tried reading the FDFORMATed diskettes yet so I am not sure how this
- will work, but the initial results are somewhat disconcerting. TIMESET on the
- other hand just locks itself up in a DOS Session and requires the CTRL-ESC
- style termination.
-
- I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know where to find
- the updated versions of these programs or if it is possible to get them to work
- in OS/2. My system is i486-33 EISA, 8 Meg. RAM, OS/2 2.0 all HPFS on the hard
- disk. Thanks !
-
- John Duchowski
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