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From: chien@wam.umd.edu (Minze V. Chien)
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Subject: Any experience with FDFORMAT?
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Date: 3 Mar 91 23:27:27 GMT
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   I'd like to ask: is any one using FDFORMAT 
from C. Hochstatter, et al. for formatting floppy disks ?

   It's a program to format floppy disk in various capacities, e.g.
you can get 820 KB for a 5.25" DS/DD disk, 1.72MB for a 3.5" DS/DD disk, 
etc.  (It also allows you to format a 3.5" disk to 1.2MB, btw.)  I recently
obtained from it wuarchive under /mirrors/msdos/dskutl/fdfrm16a.zip and found
it extremely useful because all my old & useless 5.25" DS/DD disks become
useful again.  I know it's non-standard, but for storing some non-critical
stuffs it looks pretty appealing to me.  

The question:  Is there any potential problem in using non-standard
               formatting utilities?  Any experience with this? 
   
Thanks in advance.

My configuration: PC 486/25 128KB cache with Seagate IDE 130MB drive, 
                  4MB RAM, 1.2MB & 1.44MB floppy drives,  running
                  MS DOS 3.3 and Window 3.0. 

Minze V. Chien
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