Article-I.D.: brl-adm.4357
Posted: Tue Feb 10 11:23:07 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Feb-87 19:24:06 EST
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I got my C128 this past Christmas which had the 8 Dec 1985 release (at least
thats the date returned with no date set), but the FORMAT that came with it
only has a menu for 128-double, 128-single, and 64-single formats.
I can comfirm that 128-single also zaps 'side-2' on a 1571. I tried to make
a 'flippy' for a friend with 128 stuff on one side and CP/M on the other.
I did the 128 side first, then went to CP/M and formatted what I thought
was the 'other side'. Luckily, I then went back to 128 mode to print
the directory (which I had forgotten to do) and 128 DOS was somewhat
confused by the disk. Anyway, sounds like Commodore is still
distributing the '2 1/2 option' FORMAT.COM. Maybe the version from
GENIE and/or COMPUSERVE is an 'enhanced' version.
David Brown
jdb@ncsc