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From: "Richard Lyon" <rlyon@ozemail.com.au>
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> From:          Alan Batie <batie@rdrop.com>
> Subject:       1.7 meg floppies?

> I'm told Microsoft, at least at one time, distributed software on floppies
> formatted to 1.7 Meg as a form of copy protection (no one could generate
> that format, I guess).  Has anyone heard of this?  Is there a way to get
> FreeBSD to do such a thing?  It would probably be enough to allow me to
> make a new version of freertr based on current software...  Thanks...

I seem to remember something about this in the mtools manual pages 
explaining how to do this.

Regards ...