alank@pro-beagle.cts.com (Alan Krause) (12/07/89)
Would anyone have a quick formatting routine for formatting ProDOS 5 1/4
floppies??? I know that ProDOS does not have any built in format routines,
so that limits you to the 'direct' access disk commands, but I'm not real
confident in doint this, since I wiped out track $00 of my merlin 8/16 disk
doing this (OOOPS!)...
Please dop me a line if ya can help me out..
alankhuang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang) (12/08/89)
> Would anyone have a quick formatting routine for formatting ProDOS 5 1/4 >floppies??? > > alank There used to be a program called HyperFormatter. I think it was written by Jerry Hewett of Living Legends Software. I don't know where you could get it, though, or how to contact Living Legends. You might try one of the ftp sites, since I think HyperFormatter was shareware. Howard C. Huang huang@husc4.harvard.edu huang@husc4.BITNET huang@husc4.UUCP
pnakada@oracle.com (Paul Nakada) (12/08/89)
In article <3372@husc6.harvard.edu> huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang) writes: Path: oracle!apple!snorkelwacker!husc6!husc4!huang From: huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Date: 7 Dec 89 19:01:55 GMT References: <53.chatter.infoapple@pro-beagle> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: huang@husc4.UUCP (Howard Huang) Organization: Harvard University Science Center Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 > Would anyone have a quick formatting routine for formatting ProDOS 5 1/4 >floppies??? > > alank There used to be a program called HyperFormatter. I think it was written by Jerry Hewett of Living Legends Software. I don't know where you could get it, though, or how to contact Living Legends. You might try one of the ftp sites, since I think HyperFormatter was shareware. Howard C. Huang huang@husc4.harvard.edu huang@husc4.BITNET huang@husc4.UUCP Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember someone saying that Shrinkit uses HyperFormatter to format 5 1/4" disks... you might want to get in contact with Andy Nicholas about the details... P.S. howard, how you doing?
krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (12/09/89)
The program I use most of the time to format disks is ShrinkIt. The format routines in v2.1 really fly. You may ask the author, Andy Nicholas, if he can give you any pointers. He's the only person I'm sure of that both reads the net and has written (or at least implemented) a format routine. Ken. ken-b@uiuc.edu