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From: cg108fep@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
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Subject: Re: SPARC -> MS-DOS
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Date: 10 Jun 90 21:05:14 GMT
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In article <JACOBS.90Jun10132303@cmos.cs.utah.edu> jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Steven R. Jacobs) writes:
>>	   2. You can't format DOS disks (there is no mformat),
>You can with "mkdfs", which is part of the package.  There are options
>for 720K and 1.44M formats.


Does it have the same "can't read 720k disk on 720k drive if disk
has been formatted on 1.44M drive" problem (because the high density
head is narrower than the low density head)?


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