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Subject: Formatting Floppies -- HELP!!
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Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 18:55:58 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  6 18:55:58 1987
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I would greatly appreciate either
	
	1. Source code to the equivalent of format.com
           which does not use BIOS calls.
	2. Technical specs so that I may write (1).
	3. Failing request (1) a copy of format.com
	   as mine seems to be broken.

The motivation behind (1) is to be able to format floppies from a 
Unix based system running on an IBM-XT (the system is Minix).

Please e-mail me if you can be of some help. If there is sufficient
interest I will post to the net. Thanks in advance .....




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