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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, kuma wrote:

> > Make sure you are trying to write to a 1.44MB 3.5 inch floppy disk that is
> > DOS formatted.

> I did have a new floppy disk formatted with dos, but fdimage did not even
> check the disk, it just tells me the file is too large.

I should probably ask the obvious:  what is the filesize of the image?
Did you download it in binary mode?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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