Re: Formatting MS-DOS floppies under DOS 3.3

[yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au (Willie Yeo)]

Jason A. Wells (jawells@crl10.crl.com) wrote:

: Recently, I bought an Apple IIgs at a rummage sale, replacing the
: ][+ that I sold years ago.. but now I have no floppies, except for
: those that were included with the machine to use.  What I am really
: wanting to know is if I can reformat a MS-DOS floppy for Apple ][
: use in any way.  Either 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" will work fine, just so
: long as I can have more disks for my Apple!

	You can reformat a 360k (not 1.2Mb) 5.25" disc for use on the 
Apple II... as for 3.5" disc, if you want to format a DOS 3.3 version, you 
will need a 'special' version of DOS 3.3 written for 3.5" discs. That's is 
avaliable on ground or caltech, but the name slipped my mind.

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