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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Steven had a different method of making the 2 floppy 
> > disks on an earlier version that worked fine for me.  
> 
> But it caused endless problems for other people.

So post the old one as a backup for those of us who cannot get the new one 
working.  

> 
> > Perhaps the new one just won't work on all hardware?  
> 
> Only if PCDOS 3.3 doesn't work on all hardware.


I am not using PCDOS 3.3 - MSDOS 6.22 and DR-DOS (7?).

> > I would appreciate if the other method could be posted as 
> > an alternate.  
> 
> I won't be doing that, but you are very welcome to hunt for
> a copy of BL 2.0 and use the make_fd.bat from that.

Where would I hunt since I have deleted my old copy? 

> 
> > It reformats the second floppy disk to hold more data, 
> 
> The higher density on the floppy makes it much more difficult
> to make the floppy on one drive and then successfully boot it 
> on another.
> 
> > Something seems to be going wrong for me in the reassembly step.  
> > In addition to the divide overflow, most of the time it simply 
> > does not seem to copy part2 of the divided file.
> 
> It is done with DOS batch files.  I suggest you rename autoexec.bat
> on the first floppy (to stop it from autoexecuting) and then do each
> step from the commandline to see what happens.

Soon.

> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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