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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4827 comp.os.386bsd.misc:845 comp.os.386bsd.development:1178 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!portal.austin.ibm.com!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!boyd From: boyd@austin.ibm.com (Boyd R. Faulkner) Subject: Re: [ANSWER to question] How to format a floppy for 386bsd Originator: boyd@pal411.austin.ibm.com Message-ID: <CCsDJu.A1q@austin.ibm.com> Sender: boyd@austin.ibm.com () Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 16:23:54 GMT Reply-To: boyd@austin.ibm.com References: <1993Aug30.212058.15141@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> <1993Aug31.050228.22034@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <MYCROFT.93Sep2025505@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Sep2.174803.29376@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Organization: IBM Austin Lines: 34 In article <1993Sep2.174803.29376@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > > Actually, it was worded in such a way as to get someone to go to an archive > and grab it and integrate it (it requires a header and a floppy driver > change, besides the format program itself). For many reasons (well known > to others, Charles included), I can't make the code changes myself and > then make them available (be assured, I've been able to format floppies > on all my machines for 9 months now, and the format program has been > linked against real shared libraries without any Sun/BSD4.4 code in them ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ which might these be and will they be available soon?! Define "real", please. Oh, and which set of politics? There seem to be so many and I am having trouble determining which is which. Sorry, I haven't been paying enough attention :-) > for 3 of those months -- God I hate politics!). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@icarus.weber.edu > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. --- I am not the mouth of IBM. Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. (Succinct, I had to steal it.) Boyd Faulkner boyd@austin.ibm.com