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			                     Eric H. Frankel

Users of the IBM-PCAT and AT compatibles may be familiar with the lack 
of downward compatibility for the 1.2 Meg floppy drive.  Files created 
with this drive cannot be read using the older 360 K floppy drive.  This
can create a problem for a firm owning computers which sport different 
types of drives.  A solution was suggested to me which I have not had 
the opportunity to test, but certainly seems worth a whirl.  With a copy
of PC or MS-DOS in your A: drive (or using an appropriate path to DOS on
your fixed disk) format a diskette on the machine with the 360 K drive 
using the eight sector, 320 K, switch for the format command.
     (ex.   FORMAT B:/8 )
Put this diskette in the 1.2 Meg floppy drive of the other computer and 
try copying a file to it.  This trick may allow the 360 K drive to read 
the file.  Since, I haven't tested this myself yet due to a lack of AT, 
I would appreciate feedback on the success of this method.





































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