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From: ddurbin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Daniel A. Durbin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: high capacity floppies
Summary: Also available, 800KFMAT.arc
Keywords: floppy, format
Message-ID: <8606@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 26 Feb 89 17:42:44 GMT
References: <1043@noao.UUCP> <7923@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: ddurbin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Daniel A. Durbin)
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In article <7923@xanth.cs.odu.edu> rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey) writes:
>In article <1043@noao.UUCP> cole@noao.edu (Lonnie Cole) writes:
>>
>>I am looking for sources, binaries, info, etc for any device drivers/programs
>>which will allow MS-DOS to format/read/write standard double sided/double
>>density floppies on a High density drive but to a higher capacity than the
>>normal 360k format. 
>
>What you need is a shareware program called COMFMT.

	Also available is a non-tsr program called 800KFMAT written by
	Allan Jones.  It works quite well and seems to be reliable.

	If it is not already posted on simtel, I will post it in
	pd1:<msdos.dskutil>.

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