Chris writes:
>> 	- have a set of built-in well-known floppy formats
>> 	- have a set of well-known floppy formats in a configuration file
>> 		("disktabish", as you suggested).

>I'd say that the latter is always better than the former here:

>	(1) you don't waste space in the binary,

>	(2) it's easily configurable.

I'll second that.  I recall the good old days of CP/M ... :-)
It was trivial to read/write floppies from just about any OS, because
you could simply plug the right values into the bios from a floppy
database.  And there were tools/tricks for working out the parameters
for unknown formats.

--sjg
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Simon J. Gerraty        <sjg@quick.com.au>

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