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Article #36073Re: G+Plus and DCFormat3.0 don't mix.
From: Fred R. Goldstein
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 16:34
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 16:34
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[the line eater lives!] A minor request for the authors of DCFormat and other formatters; DCFormat and some others DON'T produce the only COMPATIBLE format for the ST and MS-DOS machines, which is said to be implemented in TOS 1.4. I ONLY use Moshe Braner's IBMFMT on the ST now, for that reason! The correct "compatible" format writes an MS-DOS boot sector but with the Serial Number (random! Really Random!) in the right spot for TOS. MS-DOS doesn't care, as that's just the ASCII version number of the MS-DOS system that formatted it, or some such drivel. DCFormat is really cute but without that detail, I can't move stuff to MS-DOS machines, and if I use its MS-DOS boot option, it doesn't have the serial number and the ST gets seriously confused!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!jfcl.dec.com!frg From: frg@jfcl.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: G+Plus and DCFormat3.0 don't mix. Message-ID: <439@jfcl.dec.com> Date: 20 Jan 89 16:34:45 GMT References: <549@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> <713@uhnix2.uh.edu> Reply-To: frg@jfcl.UUCP (Fred R. Goldstein) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 15