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From: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Format
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Date: 6 Jun 91 12:28:24 GMT
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In article <91156.002321NCOYNE@ESOC.BITNET> NCOYNE@ESOC.BITNET writes:
>Does anyone know wether there is a program available to format ms dos
>compatable disk formats on an Atari ST. If there is one available in
>the P.D. this would be a big help to me.

You don't need no disk formatters. Just format using GEM Desktop, and
change the first 3 bytes of sector 0 to EB 34 90 (hex) with a sector
editor. Works like a charm. Just don't put any '+' signs in your TOS
filenames...


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