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- From: rassilon@infopls.chi.il.us (Michael Quintero)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: FDFORMAT AND TIMESET UNDE
- Message-ID: <gate.HT7iPB1w165w@infopls.chi.il.us>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 00:40:04 CDT
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- > 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 !
- >
- I don't know about TIMESET, but on my system FDFORMAT zorches out with the
- message "DMA accross [sic] 64kb boundary". I have been in communication
- with the author and he insists that it does work under OS/2 v2. He
- also says that he is writing a version for Windows/NT (insert boo/hiss here)
- The formatted diskettes work fine, however, except (on my system) the
- 360k->820k diskettes.
-
- His email address is : HAMPE2@DMRHRZ11.BITNET Drop him a line, maybe he'll
- realize that there is a market for his programs in the OS/2 field.
-
- Mike Quintero ( rassilon@infopls.chi.il.us )
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