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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Making an MFS disk (yes, really!)
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Date: 14 May 89 03:21:26 GMT
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In article <9173@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU 
	(Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
...
>I believe that holding down the option key when you format
>single-sided will cause an HFS 400k volume to be created.  I seem to
>recall a TN describing how to format 800k MFS volumes, but I don't
>recall the details.

     Boot a Mac Plus or 512ke from System 2.0.  You can then format
800k MFS volumes all day long.  I have never seen Apple endorse this
technique anywhere.



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