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From: Jerry.Kindall@f10.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jerry Kindall)
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Subject: Disk Formatter
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Date: 17 Feb 89 15:51:00 GMT
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Does anyone know of a public domain disk formatter that fits in a very 
small memory space?  I need this for my MicroDot package (for more 
details on MicroDot, see page 10 of the latest Nibble).  Currently I am 
using a very modified HYPER.FORMAT, but it requires a large memory 
buffer in which it builds the track image.  Has anyone written a disk 
formatter which writes the track "on the fly" as did DOS 3.3?  I really 
want to get rid of that huge track buffer.  It wouldn't be so bad 
except that it's fixed in memory at $6800-$8000.
 
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