Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:03:43 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: ClosedDOS???
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On  9 Sep 97 at 21:22, -= ArkanoiD =- wrote:

> nuqneH,
> 
> > Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:15:32 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
> > X-Sender: mharris AT capslock DOT com
> > To: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
> > cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> > Subject: Re: ClosedDOS???
> 
> [dd]
> 
> > > Bah, why worry about it?  Roll your own utils. Or use djgpp.  The
> > > only thing I don't know how to do (that I'm interested in) is format
> > > drives.  But I'll figure that out eventually.
> 
> There are several freeware disk formatting programs - and some of
> them are more flexible than DOS one.

Got one.  I realy like it's sector sliding feature, and the larger 
disks.  It's `fdformat', look for FDFORMnn.ZIP on simtel 
(msdos/dskutl).  It even has some source, so I might learn something 
from it.

> 
> >
> > I have rolled some of my own things, but I don't have any desire
> > to code full utility sets.
> >
> 
> Why code? Utility set from GNU already does exist for DOS systems -
> even 16-bit.

Ahh, but GNU doesn't exactly supply any of the dos specific utils 
(disk caches, memory managers etc).
Bill
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