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From: s8922967@ipc04.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Murray John GILBERT)
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Subject: Re: MSDOS Floppy format?
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Date: 29 Jun 91 14:37:19 GMT
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In article <6524@mindlink.bc.ca> Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.bc.ca (Harvey Taylor) writes:
>
>    Does anybody know anything about the disk structures of MSDOS disks?
> I am writing an AutoDiskChange type utility for SCSI floppies and I
> need to be able to recognize MSDOS disks.
>
>0038CFAC  EB349043 444D2020 332E3200 02020100  .4.CDM  3.2.....
>
>    Is this a fluke?
>    Anybody got a pointer to a succinct description of MSDOS file formats?

They tend to be of that form, the CDM could be IBM or something else, though
The 3.2 is for MS-DOS 3.2, the version of msdos used to format it.
The info I have on the MSDOS formats is from the MESSYDOS device/filesystem
drivers. The man files for these have some info on it, look at the source 
too, quite interesting. Find it at ab20 I think, as well as other places.

>    -het
>
> "People in North America are so affluent and so unhappy,
>  it seems all out of whack." -Heather Lockely [African volunteer teacher]
Because they, like most of us (me too, though I am aware of it to a degree)
haven't got it thru their thick skulls that affluence/possessions does not
equal happiness/security and so lust after more to try to satisfy the
security urge.
I piece of philosophy by me (modest aren't ya ;-) )

- Murray