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Re: Floppy formats



Gerry..
there is a DOS command which should foprmat a floppy to whatever ancient
format that you might need..

you might just NOT have the correct floppy..
if it calls for a 720k floppy just cover the little square hole on a HD floppy
and.. VIOLA..!! a low densitry floppy..
:-)

Gerry Prosser wrote:

> In-Reply-To: <35396652.1865457@core.iconnet.net>
> Assuming the file is in .DSK format, you could use DIUNPACK.EXE
> (contained in fastkick.zip on hobbes) to unpack the disk image to a dasd
> directory, then copy the files to a diskette with a density of your own
> choice.
>
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> Subject: Floppy formats
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> I'm trying to access some older drivers off the IBM site,
> but it requires a low density floppy to extract to.
> Unfortunately the external floppy drive of my 365XD doesn't
> seem to support formatting to low density format!!  Is this
> really so?  If it is, is there another way of extracting
> the files from the archive?  Why can't they use ZIP or ARJ,
> why do they have to make things so difficult!!  Thanks
> for any help.



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