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From: iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Downloading with an IBM for the ST
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Date: 14 Oct 90 07:46:23 GMT
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In article <7340002@hpfcso.HP.COM> rrd@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ray Depew) writes:
>Forgot to mention that, on MSDOS machines, FORMAT /S puts the boot sector on
>disk; just plain FORMATW doesn't.
>
Ummm... Plain FORMAT puts the boot sector on the disk.  FORMAT /S puts the
DOS boot files on the disk to turn it into a "system" disk.

il
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