720k 5.25 disks

[Earl H. Kinmonth]

>The comment wasn't aimed at Earl's machine, or Tandy's, but rather the
>typical AT clone.  Other people reading this might get confused.
>Earl's AT&T 6300+ is not a typical IBM clone.

Not a flame. Just a minor correction. I do not have a 6300+. I have a
6310. This is supposed to be a real AT clone. It does, however, handle
720K/5.25 disks without problem (so it is not a ~true~ clone). A true
blue machine is not so rational.

Just to get back to the original issue: moving 720/5.25 tar disks between
MSDOS and Xenix.  I have a solution, a German program, fdformat that
includes a utility that makes AT-clones behave rationally.  My version of
tar (with source code) remains available.  Cost == support == 0.00, but
this may double in the future.

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Earl H. Kinmonth
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University of California, Davis
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