Re: so how do you format a floppy for the MAC?

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From: Gregory B. Lampshire
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 18:08

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In article <1992Oct1.162445.15918@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>  
dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton) writes:
> In article <7619@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu (Gregory B.  
> Lampshire) writes:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > It seems that BuildDOS is gone from NS3.0.  So how does one explicitly  
> > build a DOS or MAC floppy?

> Insert an uninitialized floppy into the drive.  A panel will come up  
asking you either to initialize or eject (or cancel).  If you click  
initialize, then the options (DOS, NeXT and Macintosh) can be selected. 


Doesn't quite get there.  What if I have a DOS floppy and I want to make a  
MAC floppy?  Do I have to somehow destroy the DOS format first in order to  
get a intialization request panel?



-gregory

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