Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!bh1e+ From: bh1e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: 35 track floppies (was BASIC.SYSTEM v1.3 Bug) Message-ID: <8Z8aabm00WB244_GUW@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 18:57:43 GMT References: <12994@athertn.Atherton.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 7 I really don't see the problem with ProDOS supporting 40 tracks for reads and writes. Any disk formatted at 35 tracks will always act the same. Only people that have 40 track drives are going to have to worry about it, or people that receive disks from others that have been formatted with 40 tracks, which would probably cause problems anyway...