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Are My Floppy disks rusting away
About the only thing I use floppies for these days is to run software
that the vendor's brain dead scripts require to run from A:. These are freqyently boot images and I always do a full format on the floppy to check for bad spots. Is seems to me that it's getting harder and harder to find a floppy that's clean. I also suspect that if the floppy drives are not used once in awhile they might not work well. Does anyone agree, of have any hard information ? -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Impmon wrote:
On 15 Aug 2004 11:42:02 -0400, (Al Dykes) wrote: About the only thing I use floppies for these days is to run software that the vendor's brain dead scripts require to run from A:. from a dos prompt: subst a: c:\floppy No slow floppy disk required, just copy stuff to the c:\floppy directory first, then run the program. -- Mike |
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