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From: bwildasi@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Wildasin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Formatting 1581 on 128 under CP/M 3.0
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.014712.12829@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 91 01:47:12 GMT
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I would like to format my 1581 3.5" disk drive under CP/M. I tried a
utility on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil which is in the directory
pd2:<cpm.c128>format81.lbr (another site for you CBM FTP list mongers, by
the way). I tried the statement "format81 b:" (my 1581 is device 9), but it
complained of a format error and bailed out without so much as flashing the
access light. Unfortunately, I cannot read the docs because they use some
strange archive format which results in a .*z* extension. 

I appreciate any & all help in how to format the 1581, or how to uncompress
the .dzq file.
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