Re: Small's 410k fast formatter

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From: franco
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1987 20:08

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There is one more thing that must be done to David Small's 400k fast
formatter (START - latest issue) in order to make it useful.  The executable
given in START always sets the disk serial number to 0.  This is interesting
because, according to the source code, the executable should set the disk
serial number to a random number.   I suppose the executable provided in
START was a preliminary version.  Small probably realized there was a 
problem and changed the sources, but neglected to send the updated 
executables to START.  All is not lost, however.  In sector 3 there is the
HEX string FFFFFFFF.  Simply change it to HEX 0FFFFFFF to get random
serial numbers.

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