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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada and Hardware
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chris.danx wrote in message ...
>Hello folks,
>    I'm implementing a program which reads files on a floppy disk which are
not
>stored via the fat12 file system.  I know this is the most popular format
but i
>want a simple contigouous fs for the purposes of booting an OS.

There is a lot of utilities for reading and writing DOS disks. Why change
something which is so standardized?

Booting from such a floppy should be well understood since there are at
least two such systems used in conjunction with Linux and the various BSD
varieties.


Greetings,