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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!world!cdi From: cdi@world.std.com (william f fiore) Subject: mread problems Message-ID: <CxpxAy.LJ4@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 14:23:22 GMT Lines: 25 i can not get mread to read any of the BIN01.xx files? or anything else for that matter. i have a recollection that someone posted (a long time ago) that pristine floppies had to be used? and that they needed a track zero ??? i discovered that my copy of mread WILL complain if the floppy has any blocks marked as bad! my question.....DO I NEED SPECIAL FLOPPIES? i bought some 1.2mb(white box- no name ....all they had) and MESSYDOS chkdsk says 1213952 bytes but the dist.fs files are 1228800 vyres long???? is this wierd? or is it me? -- latr$ William F. Fiore Jr. ($BILFJR) ONLINE SINCE '79(sm) Compute Data Inc RR181B Douglas MA 01516 USA +1 508 476 3663(voice/fax)