Re: Writing 360K diskettes on 1.2 Mb drives

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From: Michael Coulter
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1986 20:30

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You don't need a special program.  A floppy formated as 360K will be written
in that format.  You can also format a floppy as 360K with the /4 switch.
I have read that some PC's may have trouble reading the data, but I haven't
encountered any probelms.

-- Michael Coulter ...ucbvax!hplabs!coulter

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Subject: Re: Writing 360K diskettes on 1.2 Mb drives
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Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 15:30:00 EST
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