Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>>Because you need to have a 720 floppy drive in order to make a diskcopy
of a 720 floppy. The DISKCOPY command will not work right unless you are
working with identical media and perfectly compatible drives. Most of the
original software disks from some of the best good vintage years was
supplied on 720 floppies.<<
AFAIK, all 1.44 MB floppy drives are capable of reading, writing and
formatting 720 KB floppies. In order to format a 1.44 MB floppy as a 720 KB
floppy, *and* to use diskcopy, all you have to do is tape over the hole in
the upper left corner of the disk. (I use black plastic electric tape.)
Format the disk as a 720 KB disk and leave the tape in place and your drive
will think that it is a 720 KB disk.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
