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From: ljdickey@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Subject: Re: Reading DOS formatted diskettes
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.160759.7026@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <4267@oakhill.UUCP> <1990Dec3.211612.2176@watmath.waterloo.edu> <RALPH.90Dec5162428@orion.laas.fr>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 90 16:07:59 GMT
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In article <RALPH.90Dec5162428@orion.laas.fr> ralph@laas.fr writes:

>I recommend FORMAT which, I believe was posted in Sept.  It should be
>available from atari.archive.  The major difference between FORMAT and
>PS2FORM is that a) FORMAT ensures that the floppy has a random serial
>number, while being MS-DOS (and for that matter SPARCstation)
>compatible, and b) it creates 3 sector FATs, thereby giving the user 2
>extra clusters (the same as if the floppy would have been formatted on
>a PC).  What more can one ask for?

Not much, I guess.  FORMAT sounds great.

Thanks for the pointer.