Date   : Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:16:11 +0000
From   : Stuart William McConnachie <stuart@...>
Subject: Re: Formatting disk images

>In message <01bd5686$103420a0$LocalHost@...>, Douglas Hoskins
><dougie@...> writes
>>I'm using PC-BBC 1.01... it says in the readme that *FORM <drive number>
>>should work... but it doesn't :-(
>Please check you've got version 1.01 of pcBBC.  If you downloaded from
>the BBC Lives site, then unfortunately Robert, who runs the page, made a
>bit of a mistake.  I sent him version 1.01, which fixes the problem it
>sounds like you're having, but he only updated the details on the page
>and *not* the version you can dowload from there.  That's still the
>buggy 1.00 version when I checked yesterday.  Once again sorry for the
>problems.

Appologies to anyone who has been having problems formatting disks under
version 1.01 of pcBBC using the Watford 1.44 DFS.  The real reason for
the problem is the incorrect *FORM syntax.  The correct syntax for the
*FORM command is:
*FORM40 <drive>         for a 40 track disk or
*FORM80 <drive>         for an 80 track one.
And not *FORM <drive> as detailed in the pcBBC README.TXT.

Sorry, my (disk!) fault....

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