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From: boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DCformat question
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.053153.1330@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 91 05:31:53 GMT
References: <5083@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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In article <5083@tellab5.tellabs.com>, etan@sunEc.tellabs.com (Nate Stelton) writes:
>I got a copy of DC format so that I could write files on a disk with a PC and 
>read them on my 1040ST, but it's not working.  I can write the files on the
>disk and read the back with my MS-DOS machine, but when I try to look at them
>on the Atari, they're not there.
>
>Am I trying to do the impossible, or am I just doing something wrong?
>
>Nate Stelton, etan@tellabs.com

Get a copy of Vkiller 3.whatever and check your disks.  I'll bet you a buck 
that you have a virus, probably the Signum virus.  It does nothing, but will 
make a disk unreadable by a PC.  I personally use ps2form to format disks 
to work on both machines.  I do it every day, and have never had a problem.
The virus thing drove me nuts, I would format a disk on the PC, put files 
on it, take it home and just look at it (no writes), and it would no longer 
work in the PC's.  I tried about 15 formatters before it occured to me that
a virus might be the culprit!

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