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From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Have you checked your floppies lately?
Message-ID: <524@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Apr 89 11:49:42 GMT
References: <28718@apple.Apple.COM> <19510@genrad.UUCP> <39434@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway)
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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In article <39434@think.UUCP> ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes:
>Harry Starr
[...]
>wrote a little utility for
>verifying the format of floppies.  He'd found that some floppies would
>format cleanly, but couldn't hold their data.  So, his practice was to
>format floppies in advance, and then verify the format a few days
>later, before using the floppies.
>
>Harry's utility, Disk Verify 1.1, is available from sumex as

I can recommend it.  I've had it a while, and found it useful and
reliable.  When it says a disc is good or bad, you can believe it.

Confession: I never paid the shareware fee ($5).  My copy is dated 1986.
I dont know if the address on it is still valid.  Can anyone tell me if
Harry Starr is still reachable at 90 Haverhill St., Methuen, MA 01844?

Another reason I never paid the fee is that it would cost me another $10
in bank charges to get a $ bank draft, which seems a bit silly.  Does
anyone have suggestions for a more practical form of payment?  (Well,
adding inflation plus guiltware fee for delaying so long would make the
admin charge less disproportionate...)

>Ephraim Vishniac  /  Internet: ephraim@think.com  / AppleLink: ThinkingCorp
>Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214
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Richard Kennaway                SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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