Re: Apple IIgs to ms-dos

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

In article <32e2bd47.26806886@167.152.149.11>, drsmooth@relex.com says...

>On Sun, 19 Jan 1997 21:01:18 GMT, jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)
>wrote:

>>The problem that people are having is from the new FAT system that was
>>introduced with Windows 95.  The MS-DOS FST cannot handle this new FAT
>>format, only the old one.  Fortunately, this new FAT is an optional
>>setting and can be avoided.

>How?

Windows 95, in and of itself, did not introduce any such thing.

*YES*, the Windows 95 floppies (and some other Microsoft floppies) use a new, 
proprietary 1.7MB (or thereabouts) for software distribution, but Win95, out 
of the box, will not allow you to format disks in this matter.  So I don't 
know why the MS-DOS FST on the GS would care.

Now if you mean the *HARD DRIVE* FAT, there was an optional FAT32 introduced 
in *some* OEM versions of Win95, but the over-the-shelf versions don't have 
it, and in any case it's not relevant to this discussion.
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