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macformat - format Mac floppies VERY FAST on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Jun 11 16:14:16 1995
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 04:10:22 -0500
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@rose.uthscsa.edu>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: aeglos@valinor.owl.de (Holger Schemel)
Subject: macformat - format Mac floppies VERY FAST on Linux
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Keywords: macintosh, floppy disk, formatting
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
macformat
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This is a little tool which is useful if you want to format a floppy
disk with a Macintosh format, e.g. for use with the Macintosh emulator
"executor".
It writes Mac formatted floppies the way "mformat" does with DOS floppies,
but you can specify a disk label. Just type
macformat /dev/fd0 "Disk name"
and a few seconds later you have a Mac formatted disk. (It writes only the
blocks that are really needes and is therefore very fast.)
Here's the lsm entry:
Begin3
Title: macformat
Version: 1.0
Entered-date: 07JUN95
Description: writes a macintosh formatted disk in a few seconds
Keywords: macintosh, floppy disk, formatting
Author: aeglos@valinor.owl.de (Holger Schemel)
Maintained-by: aeglos@valinor.owl.de (Holger Schemel)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/utils/disk-management
macformat-1.0.tgz
Platforms: Should run on any UN*X system that can handle
1.44MB DOS floppy disks
Copying-policy: Freely distributable copyrighted software
End
Regards,
Holger
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