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From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: MS/PC DOS 3.3 vs 4.? (which is better?)
Message-ID: <15548@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 90 20:53:38 GMT
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In <58280@microsoft.UUCP> steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes:

>In article <1990Oct15.025303.6582@odetics.com> frank@odetics.UUCP (Frank Merrow) writes:


>>I assume that even though the Hard Disc is a large partition that the
>>standard floppies still work too (even Microsoft would not dare screw up
>>that bad).

>The format of floppy disks is unchanged.

That may well be, but I've had some trouble reading disks on 3.2 that
were formatted under 4.01.  It *might* be a hardware problem, but I
have to wonder what 3.2 makes of a 4.01 disk serial number.

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ergo@netcom.uucp			Isaac Rabinovitch
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