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410k fast formatter

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From: franco
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1987 13:22
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This may have been mentioned before but it is interesting enough to be
repeated.  The latest version of STart contains a program called twister
which fast-formats a disk to 400k.  Although the format used seems to be 
a bit slower than the fast formats developed earlier, the fact that the new
fast formatted disk contains 400k makes this, in my opinion, the preferred
ST formatter.  I am not sure why the authors of twister set their formatter
to 400k when 410k can easily be achieved.  The following hacks to the 
executable will change twister to a 410k twister:

The single occurrence of HEX 0320 should be changed to 0334
The single occurrence of HEX 0640 should be changed to 0668
The single occurrence of HEX 0050 should be changed to 0052  (in third sector)

I would like to be able to compile the source code provided but twister.h
and twster.rsh were not provided on the disk (therefore a megamax resource
construction set is needed to create these files - and I and thousands of
others do not have this).  I sure wish that people that sent sources would
do a thorough job of it, particulary if the sender is receiving payment.
I realize that I can create those files given sufficient time but why do I
have to?
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Subject: 410k fast formatter
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Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 08:22:00 EST
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