Re: Apple DOS 3.2 help! HOW?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <sfv12tc5j6c66ek0q263qtvt7k08ntfefi@news.newsguy.com>,
Paul Guertin  <pg@sff.net> wrote:
 
> pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> 
>> In article <NgNT5.27$iZ4.385@dca1-nnrp2.news.digex.net>,
>> Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
>>  
>>> MUFFIN converts 13 sector DOS 3.2 diskettes to 16 sector diskettes.
>>  
>> It does NOT !!!!  The 13-sector diskette will still be a 13-sector
>> diskette even after you've been running MUFFIN on it!
> 
> You are technically correct. "Muffin" can copy files from a 13-sector
> DOS disk to a 16-sector disk but leaves the original unchanged, so
> it cannot be said to "convert diskettes". I don't think that such a
> minor correction warrants the use of five exclamation marks, though.
 
OK, I was overreacting, but my response was really a reaction to several
posters, all of which called file transfers "conversions".
 
 
> Thanks for the source code to your Double-DOS program.
 
You already had it among the stuff I sent you earlier, although you
probably hadn't noticed it.  Admittedly, I had to spend a few minutes
myself locating it, even though I knew what I was looking for.
 
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