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From: rrd@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Downloading with an IBM for the ST
Message-ID: <7340005@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Oct 90 20:33:31 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>>Forgot to mention that ....

> 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.

Oops.  I stand corrected.  (BTW, It's not FORMATW.  That's a little spelling
error vi added for me.)

Ray
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