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- Page 1 of 1 DRIVTYPS.DOC - by Jeff Camino May 8, 1993
-
- DRIVeTYPeS is donated to the public domain--IT's FREE! All I ask is that you
- also distribute this little DOC file with it as you share it with others.
-
- DRIVeTYPeS is a program that returns the type(s) of floppy diskette drives on
- most AT class PC's (80286's and above). This is very handy since it is very
- difficult (if not impossible) to sit in front of a PC and determine its drive
- capacity by just looking at it. Granted, there are some other utilities that
- will also do this nicely (Norton Utils, PCtools, etc.), but they are also
- very bulky--and expensive. I wanted a small program that would do this, that
- would be portable (without any copyright infringement), and that I could
- distribute with FORMENU. FORMENU is a shareware program that I've written
- to ease the function of formatting diskettes.
-
- As a computer consultant in a medium-sized organization, I found a lot of my
- time devoted to helping people format diskettes because they either did not
- know the drive capacity of the PC they were currently sitting at, and/or they
- were unfamiliar with all the parameters required to format low density
- diskettes in high capacity drives. FORMENU is a quick little menu that helps
- users to do this because it tells you what kind of diskettes may be formatted
- at the PC and how to determine the capacity of diskettes. Once a selection is
- made, the parameters to format low density diskettes in high density drives
- are done for you. All anyone really has to remember is to type FORMENU!
-
- FORMENU takes less than 27k installed and works on almost any PC: I haven't
- found one that it doesn't work on. It's been a real hit where I work and has
- saved my office a lot of support calls concerning floppy diskette formatting.
-
- IF YOU THINK YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN FORMENU, PLEASE
- LET ME KNOW AND I'LL SEND AN EVALUATION COPY FREE OF CHARGE. Since I'm a
- college student (working thru college) I anticipate moving and ask that you
- use directory assistance if you would like to call, or you can write me at:
-
- JEFF CAMINO
- P.O. Box 25262
- Columbia, SC 29224
-
- CompuServe members can contact me on CompuServe. My userid is 71561,2751.
-
- The latest version can be found in the IBM software forum or on the INTERNET
- as FORMNUxx.ZIP, where xx is the version number. As of May 1993, the latest
- version is 3.1 which translates to *** FORMNU31.ZIP ***.
-