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From: psfales@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Pete Fales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 400K Floppies
Message-ID: <2185@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 15:54:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpe.2185
Posted: Sun Oct 18 15:54:38 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Oct-87 00:39:10 EDT
References: <1987Oct16.235254.16620@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
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Summary: WARNING - May be pirated!

In article <1987Oct16.235254.16620@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, dtinker@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Prof. David Tinker) writes:
 > 
 > In Article 7799 of comp.sys.ibm.pc, broman@cod.UUCP (Vincent P. Broman) says:
 > 
 > > Does anyone know how to format floppies to a size of 400K?
 > 
 > Hey Presto!  Enclosed is a utility called JFORMAT, which formats floppies in
 > practically any format you like: doublesided/singlesided, 8/9/10 sectors,
 > 512/1024 bytes/sector, supports high density/quad density drives, etc. etc.
 > This was downloaded from a local BBS, so as always, no guarantees of any kind,
 > caveat emptor, you're on your own, and so on, but I had no problem formatting
 > a 401K ds/dd floppy, which passed chkdsk and read/write tests.  Amazing!

I also downloaded this program from a local BBS and found it seemed to
work as advertised.  However, hidden within the JFORMAT program (apparently
zapped) and not hidden in the device driver were a serial number and
a copyright notice by Tall-Tree Systems.  Perhaps this software should
not be distributed on Usenet unless the copyright status could be made
clear.  
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