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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: "Device" vs. "Handler"??
Summary: Bugs do exist in trackdisk.device
Message-ID: <1210@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 4 Sep 90 02:56:16 GMT
References: <082090.120745@ckctpa.UUCP> <25339.26d3ba57@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <6436@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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>In article <25339.26d3ba57@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
:: MHS provides a device driver to access the floppy hardware because of bugs
:: in trackdisk.device, so messydisk.device is a device.

In article <6436@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Well, if you call "using a proprietary low-level format to pack 880K instead
>of 720K on a disk" a "bug", yes.

But Peter, there are bugs in the trackdisk.device, real ones.  Including the
one acknowleged by Commodore that was caused by a typo in the source code.
The 880K feature is not was markv is talking about.
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