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From: iNFiK <randolp1 AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DirectX 2 SDK
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:59:30 -0700
Organization: Daemonics
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References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960726130913 DOT 9026D-100000 AT n6k> <01bb7c5d$6d6ec7c0$39cc5380 AT maan-m DOT -hamze>
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Maan M. Hamze wrote:
> 
> Graham Sturmy <sturmyg AT cs DOT man DOT ac DOT uk> wrote in article
> <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960726130913 DOT 9026D-100000 AT n6k>...
> >
> > 3. 10 files each just over 3 Meg each (If anyone knows why they are 3 Meg
> > and not single floppy size .... Please tell me!)
> 
> I believe the reason is, but please do not quote me on it - hehehehe -,
> that you can format a high density 3.5" disk into this amount.  I heard of
> a program that can do that and it is on the M$ FTP site.
> 

i thought that thing formatted it to 1.7mb (the microsoft one) .. hm..

anyhoo, there are programs that can format them to 5MB, but you have to 
have that pesky 1K tsr loaded, and thats not good if you bring your disks 
to other computers, unless they have that tsr also.

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