Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!vms.macc.wisc.edu From: michaelb@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Michael Bloxham) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Needing DOS to format Message-ID: <3777@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Date: 8 Jun 90 22:43:16 GMT Sender: news@dogie.macc.wisc.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 31 In article <21518@nigel.udel.EDU>, andrew@eleceng.bradford.ac.uk (Andrew G. Minter) writes... >> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 90 15:55:35 GMT >> From: "LCDR Michael E. Dobson" >> >> > No, one shouldn't have DOS 3.3, one shouldn't have DOS at all! MINIX is an >> > OPERATING SYSTEM (as DOS trys to be ;-), only if one needs to format one >> > needs DOS. But who formats these days ;-).~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > >> No longer true, Bruce Evans fixed that with his posting of a Minix >> stand-alone format program. You can now totaly eliminate DOS from >> your Minix machine :-). > >You still need DOS if you have 3.5" high density disks :-( > >Andrew Hopefully not for long! I patched Bruce's format program to format 3.5" disks in a second drive (1). I sent this program to him along with a new makeflops(.sh) for his approval. I was hoping he would post these to make them official (more so than coming from me anyways...). The format program works for me! Bruce, what's the status on this?? mike ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. Bloxham | Real programmers don't comment their code. michaelb@vms.macc.wisc.edu | If it was hard to write, it should be hard michaelb@WISCMACC.bitnet | to understand.