Re: MS-DOS disk format/layout

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From: brown
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1986 16:35

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In article <21900189@uiucuxc> karamich@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU writes:
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>Mr. Video writes:
>
>>Purchase a copy of the PC-DOS Technical Reference Manual from your local IBM
>>dealer.  It has all you need in there.  I have one and have used said
>>information to fix problems.
>
>Pay Big Blue MORE money for stuff it should already include with its systems!
>HA!!! You've gotta be kidding! Go to a bookstore and by an independent's
>book on IBM Technicalities--and for god's sake stay AWAY from Microsoft's
>DOS Encyclopedia-- the thing is full of more bugs than the IBM FORTRAN compiler
>Version 1.0.  Buy something like Norton's or Compute's.

I can't speak (talk)[write] about Norton's books, but the COMPUTES! Mapping the
IBM PC and PCjr point you to the IBM DOS Technical Reference Manual for many
things.  The hard disk layout information in NOT in the COMPUTES! book.
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS disk format/layout
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Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 11:35:09 EST
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