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Re: IBMFMT (was: Boot sector, virus, format).

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From: braner
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1988 21:35
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The original version of IBMFMT mistakenly produced a fixed serial number.
I later posted a corrected version that generates random serial numbers.
It IS important that your floppies have distinct serial numbers.  Please
use the second version.  If it's not around I can repost it.  (I can't
remember if I posted it to this group or comp.binaries.atari.st where
it probably got buried.  I had 4 or 5 things buried there, sources too,
and I can't even remember what they were.  Do you have them, Steve?)

- Moshe Braner
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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IBMFMT (was: Boot sector, virus, format).
Summary: get 2nd version of IBMFMT
Keywords: boot sector, format, ibmfmt, serial number
Message-ID: <4291@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 88 21:35:37 GMT
References: <1489@water.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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