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From: fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY)
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Subject: Re: Floppy driver limitations
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In article <C2toCK.6zG@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I know the floppy driver is kind of limited, but I'm wondering just HOW
>limited. I know it can't format, but is there any way to get it to read 720K
>disks on a HD 3.5" drive?

Can't format, huh? That kinda sucks - I was under the impression that it 
could, although I don't know how, exactly....

Anybody confirm/deny?

Later, Colin.


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