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From: warner@weiss.cs.unc.edu (Byron Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Hex files
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Date: 28 Mar 88 18:11:18 GMT
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Keywords: kermit

I recently got the kermit hex file from the Columbia ftp site. I am a C128 owner

and I was wondering how to convert the file to a binary form. 


Also I was wondering if anyone has had  the same problem I had with my 1571

disk drive.  The symptoms were that I couldn't format a C/PM disk or a regular 

double sided 1571 disk, but I could do anything a 1541 drive did. The problem was

that the wires on the top drive head had come loose, thus disabling it.  When I 

solder the wires back the every thing was fine until an month later the wires came 

loose again.   Now this is a recuring problem and One that could go unnoticed.  

If you never use a double sided format or fill your disks pass about 663 blocks you 

will never know that your 1571 has turned into a 1570 drive.