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From: rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MAXI Form: REAL 420k floppies?
Keywords: MAXI diskette format
Message-ID: <4908@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 89 06:35:06 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Has anybody out there used Herne Data Systems' MAXI Form program.  This
little baby formats a 360k 5.25" floppy to 420k, and 720k 3.5" floppies
to 800k.  Are these disks reliable at these capacities.  I've
successfully formatted several floppies at 420k (I only have a plain
vanilla PC-XT 360k floppy drive) with no apparent side effects.  Just
how long these disks will stay readable this way I don't know.

The program is available on SIMTEL20 (in the DSKUTLS directory.)  If may
be worth looking into, especially if you have a two-floppy PC.

If you know something about this program, post it (or mail to me and 
I'll summarize.)

Thanks,
Bob