Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pwcmrd!skipnyc!atpal!tneff From: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 feature vaporware? Message-ID: <136@atpal.UUCP> Date: 29 Apr 88 00:47:24 GMT References: <1104@neoucom.UUCP> <243@wcom.UUCP> Reply-To: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: Rational Technologies, Inc. Lines: 14 Keywords: %@^@$#^ Summary: /4 ain't gone, not everywhere anyway In article <243@wcom.UUCP> frodo@wcom.UUCP (Jim Scardelis) writes: > ... In the "old days" of the AT, you could FORMAT a 360K disk in a 1.2 MB >drive with a "FORMAT A: /4"...guess there got to be too many different >types of disks for IBM to assign a number to each... I don't have a copy of PC-DOS 3.3 handy, but I can tell you that Compaq DOS 3.31B not only supports the new /T: and /N: switches in FORMAT, but also the original /4 switch. I just formatted a bunch that way today. -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...uunet!pwcmrd!skipnyc!atpal!tneff "None of your toys CIS: 76556,2536 MCI: TNEFF will function..." GEnie: TOMNEFF BIX: are you kidding?