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ajtd@honey.st-and.ac.uk (Tony Davie) writes:

>Who knows how to persuade File exchange to format a disk as a DOS disk?
>Can it be done?

This should be easy:  Run Apple File Exchange and insert an unformatted disk.
The program should now ask you if you like to format the disk and which
format you'd like to use.  Of course you'll need a FDHD drive, but you can
both format 720K and 1400K disks.

BTW.:  I work on IIci machine.  My friend had a bad DOS disk, which his 
computer couldn't read.  I tried to read it with SoftAT but to no avail.
Then I started AFE, which could read the disk!  Using the text convert
feature, I then translated all the files on the disk to the Mac hard drive
with Mac to DOS, then formatted a new DOS disk and translated the files back.
Worked fine!  So obviously we need Macs to rescue the MS-DOS machines :-)

Bjorgvin R. Leifsson
brl@kopasker.is