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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: is there still a floppy format utility for *BSD?
Date: 27 Jan 1994 04:56:10 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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References: <EABLBFWF@math.fu-berlin.de>
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In article <EABLBFWF@math.fu-berlin.de>,
Gunther Shadow <gusw@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>there used to be a floppy formatting tool for 386BSD 0.1 which worked
>quite fine for me, but which stopped working after some patch kit
>patches. Now I switched to FreeBSD and: Is there any such thing out
>there? I found the format tool quite useful, for I don't want to
>reboot in order to format a single floppy.

One just went into FreeBSD-current less than 8 hours ago.


Nate



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