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From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: ISC2.02. dossette cant read vpix formatted drives?
Message-ID: <32849@cup.portal.com>
Date: 15 Aug 90 23:36:40 GMT
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I have been trying to get dossette to read a vpix formated disk and
it keeps on saying the diskette is not a dos format diskette! As a matter
of fact, it cant even read a real dos-formatted diskette unless the
diskette is formated by the dossette format utility...

the logistics:

1.44 3 1/2" drive. It's trying to read a 720 diskette. The dossette manual
page says it could do this ... but I havent seen it done...

also, everytime I run a dos command from unix via vpix - i.e.

$ vpix dir a:

it will go off and do it but will prompt me with this annoying prompt:

[press return to coninue]

I am calling this from a c program ... so how can I get rid of that prompt?

---thanks --
bruce
deadhead@cup.portal.com