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Article #5136Re: "Device" vs. "Handler"??
From: Joe Smith
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 02:56
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 02:56
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>In article <25339.26d3ba57@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
:: MHS provides a device driver to access the floppy hardware because of bugs
:: in trackdisk.device, so messydisk.device is a device.
In article <6436@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Well, if you call "using a proprietary low-level format to pack 880K instead
>of 720K on a disk" a "bug", yes.
But Peter, there are bugs in the trackdisk.device, real ones. Including the
one acknowleged by Commodore that was caused by a typo in the source code.
The 880K feature is not was markv is talking about.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!olivea!tymix!tardis!jms From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: "Device" vs. "Handler"?? Summary: Bugs do exist in trackdisk.device Message-ID: <1210@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Date: 4 Sep 90 02:56:16 GMT References: <082090.120745@ckctpa.UUCP> <25339.26d3ba57@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <6436@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA Lines: 16