Re: Formatting Floppies > normal capacity

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From: ssurfer
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 05:33

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In <3kp1b0$do6@styx.uwa.edu.au>, csampson@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Craig Sampson) writes:
>
>Is there a utility around for OS/2 that will format floppy disks to
>larger than their normal capaicty?  I'm using a program called FDformat
>at the moment which does wonderful stuff like format 1.2M diskettes to
>1.5M etc etc, I'd like to be able to use these under OS/2 but the driver
>required relies on normal handling of int13 so doesn't work under OS/2 at all
>
>
>Cheers,
>Craig

HI

  Just an idea.  You might try to use xdfcopy.  It is what Ibm uses to compress
Warp on floppies and it also comes on WARP.  I have no idea this will work
but it is worth a shot to mess around with.

ssurfer@pixi.com

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