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From: u9039899@cs.uow.edu.au (Darrin Jon Smart)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: 1800k disks?
Keywords: utility
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.033137.16941@cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: 31 Mar 91 03:31:37 GMT
References: <11938@aggie.ucdavis.edu>
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University
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ccs029@dino.ucdavis.edu (Val Luck) writes:

>A friend told me about a neat little utility that would let you put
>1800k of data on a 1.2meg 5.25" floppy....  has anyone heard of this
>program and is it realiable?

There is a program called FDFORMAT (I think) that gets extra space out of
floppies. Let me know if you can't find it. There is also a program called
800k that lets you get 800k out of a 360k floppy in a HD drive. Both of
these programs need to have a TSR running because the BIOS has a bug that
resets some disk parameters, but they work fairly well.

 - Darrin