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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: A look at GeoClock and 1pass
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Date: 29 Apr 91 18:11:34 GMT
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ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:

>Sun 28-Apr-91: Acquired /pc/diskutil/1pass1.zip from Simtel20.  Its
>purpose is to replace MsDos diskcopy program which requires several
>changes of disks for larger floppies and diskettes.  Useful.  I had
>no problems with 1pass when the target disk was already formatted,
>but the program couldn't cope with an unformatted 1.2K floppy on my
>386. 

Yes, but it comes with no documentation.  Both of the .DOC files that
are in the ZIP contain no user instructions.  The 1PASS.DOC file is just
a listing of assembler routines.  This looks like another one of those
programs that was really just an exercise for the author to learn
assembler; i.e., the main point is that he learned assembler by writing
this program, not that the program does anything useful.

I'm not bitching, yet.  Its just that I don't quite feel like diving
into the program with out some kind of user instructions.
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