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From: john@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (John Veregge)
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Subject: MTOOLS read/write fail with low density disks.
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I have MTOOLS version 1.6.2 (Jul 5 89) and it corrupts files when copying
to/from low density (770 K) 3.5" floppy disks. It works fine with the high
density 3.5" floppy disks (1.44 M). I have compiled this with/without the
optimization and on both a Sparc 1 with OS 4.1.0 and an IPC with OS 4.1.1.

Does anyone know of a more recent version/patch/fix than 1.6.2 (Jul 5 89)?

[[Ed's Note: You may want to verify that the patches on titan.rice.edu
have been installed in your code. I am not 100% certain what the latest
version is - there are a couple of readers working on tracking that down
even as we speak. I *do* know that one of the problems fixed by the
patches on titan involved problems writing low density disks. -bdg]]

{ MTOOLS is a collection of MSDOS tools to allow you to read and write to }
{ MSDOS formatted diskettes from a Unix based system. (Defaults to using  }
{ the Sparc's or 386's 3.5" floppy disk drive.)                           }

John R Veregge                 Section 348 - Flight Command and Data
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