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From: JerryK@cup.portal.com (Jerry E Kindall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: AppleWorks Enhancement
Message-ID: <20191@cup.portal.com>
Date: 7 Jul 89 01:48:15 GMT
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The "quiet" formatter used by ShrinkIt and many other recent programs is
Jerry Hewett's HyperFORMAT.  Unfortunately, it doesn't do any validation
on the tracks it writes, so it doesn't catch badly formatted disks.  It
also requires a 6K memory buffer to do its stuff, which might not be
available from within AppleWorks.

What's worse is that Glen Bredon posted on GEnie that HyperFORMAT does
not align the tracks on the disk properly.  This means that accessing a
disk formatted with HyperFORMAT can be substantially slower than a disk
formatted with Apple's formatter.  I'd noticed that before but didn't
know what was causing it until I read Mr. Bredon's message.  I don't
think that noise and speed are a valid reason for abandoning Apple's
formatter, which works perfectly well.  I don't know if Jerry Hewett
is aware of this problem; maybe it can be fixed.

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