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Page 1 of 1 DRIVTYPS.DOC - by Jeff Camino May 8, 1993
DRIVeTYPeS is donated to the public domain--IT's FREE! All I ask is that you
also distribute this little DOC file with it as you share it with others.
DRIVeTYPeS is a program that returns the type(s) of floppy diskette drives on
most AT class PC's (80286's and above). This is very handy since it is very
difficult (if not impossible) to sit in front of a PC and determine its drive
capacity by just looking at it. Granted, there are some other utilities that
will also do this nicely (Norton Utils, PCtools, etc.), but they are also
very bulky--and expensive. I wanted a small program that would do this, that
would be portable (without any copyright infringement), and that I could
distribute with FORMENU. FORMENU is a shareware program that I've written
to ease the function of formatting diskettes.
As a computer consultant in a medium-sized organization, I found a lot of my
time devoted to helping people format diskettes because they either did not
know the drive capacity of the PC they were currently sitting at, and/or they
were unfamiliar with all the parameters required to format low density
diskettes in high capacity drives. FORMENU is a quick little menu that helps
users to do this because it tells you what kind of diskettes may be formatted
at the PC and how to determine the capacity of diskettes. Once a selection is
made, the parameters to format low density diskettes in high density drives
are done for you. All anyone really has to remember is to type FORMENU!
FORMENU takes less than 27k installed and works on almost any PC: I haven't
found one that it doesn't work on. It's been a real hit where I work and has
saved my office a lot of support calls concerning floppy diskette formatting.
IF YOU THINK YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN FORMENU, PLEASE
LET ME KNOW AND I'LL SEND AN EVALUATION COPY FREE OF CHARGE. Since I'm a
college student (working thru college) I anticipate moving and ask that you
use directory assistance if you would like to call, or you can write me at:
JEFF CAMINO
P.O. Box 25262
Columbia, SC 29224
CompuServe members can contact me on CompuServe. My userid is 71561,2751.
The latest version can be found in the IBM software forum or on the INTERNET
as FORMNUxx.ZIP, where xx is the version number. As of May 1993, the latest
version is 3.1 which translates to *** FORMNU31.ZIP ***.