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Subject: Re: cpio for DOS and 3b2 - getting clos
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Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 13:14:00 EST
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There is another solution....  Why not purchase a 80 track 5.25 inch
external floppy for your IBM?   The cost is typically less than $200.

Writing device drivers for any system is a pain in the butt.  I've seen
advertisements for 3b2 device drivers to allow the reading of 40 track
diskettes, but why bother.

With the purchase of a 80 track drive, you can use the configurable device
driver features of MSDOS 3.3 to read and write to the 80 track 3b2 floppies.
This is the approach I've used to read and write MSDOS files on a 3b2.

Emmet P. Gray				US Army, HQ III Corps & Fort Hood
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PS.  The source to the utilities to read and write MSDOS files on a Unix
system (called mtools) was posted to comp.sources.unix a few months ago.