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From: jnicolas@athena.mit.edu (Julien J Nicolas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Reading DOS Floppies on VS3100
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.145330.8352@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 91 14:53:30 GMT
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Please forgive me if this is a FAQ: I am looking for a way to read and
write a 3.5" 1.4 M _DOS_ formatted floppy diskette. I have found
locally one such program locally (dosread, doswrite) but it is very
"unsatisfactory" since after one write it fails to read or write the
diskette and generates a "directory read error" as well as a "sd2:HARD
ERROR: compare error". The floppy diskette was originally formatted on a
NeXT using BuildDOS. I tried to read it on a VaxStation 3100.

If there are PD programs to read DOS disks, please let me know!

I do not read this newsgroup frequently, so could you please
email me any suggestions.  

Julien N.




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