🚀 go-pugleaf

On 20 Aug 1996, Daniel Collins wrote:

> Most people have probably known this forever, but I just noticed that
> I can format 3.5in floppies to 1640 blocks (minix fs). I had been 
> formatting them to 1440 blocks out of habit. The extra 200 blocks are 
> very useful as I use floppies to backup my programming projects.
> 
> So, don't short-change yourself with floppy space in Linux.
> 
> BTW, I should have worked out that this is possible since Microsoft have
> a special format on their 3.5in install disks which lets them put a 1.6M
> cabinet file on each floppy. This is to try and prevent copying of the 
> disks.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Collins,                  daniel@lisp.com.au 
>                                           http://lisp.com.au/~daniel/
> I'd rather be juggling than doing my programming assignments...
> 
> 
> 
Old stuff. MS sent out Windows95 on 1.73M diskettes. The old DOS DISKCOPY 
could not format the target diskette so "pirating" was slowed considerable.
Fortunately some German programmer did FDFORMAT that can format to almost 
any style. Try it.
Stanislaw.