> I'm having trouble reading 720 K mac floppies on my linux box. I can
> read 1.44 just fine by setting MacVolumes to /dev/fd0...
Um..I don't think you can. As I recall, the Mac 800K floppies used
Constant Linear Velocity recording instead of Constant Angular Velocity
recording. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I believe
that is one of the reasons they got 800k out of the floppy.
--Toby Everett
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Yep, you're all right. The format of the 800K floppies on Macs is the same
as was used on the Apple ][ GS, it uses a system that packs more data
on the larger outside tracks (similar to the Constant Angular Velocity
[CAV] used on CD-ROMs and some Videodiscs.)
This alone is not the only problem with reading such a format on PCs,
another is that a different data encoding scheme was used. This allowed
Apple to build disk drives (in the days of the Apple ]['s) with a suprisingly
low number of components.
Today, however, the 800K format has become a legacy format on the Macs.
Supporting this format even adds a non-negligible amount to the cost of the
floppy drive, enough that I've heard from several people that Apple will be
making 800K-capable floppy drives optional on their new low-end machines.
--Jered
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Subject: Printing under Linux???
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When I try and print from MS Word under Linux/executor 1.99k, I get the
following error on stdout..
moraine:~(136)sh: whereis: command not found
sh: whereis: command not found
I have the PRINTER env. var. set, and the paths to lpr and
executor_filter in my parent shell and in .profile since executor
seems to want to spawn /bin/sh shells.
BTW, executor filter is a link to another shell script that contains
