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|    Tom Lake to All    |
|    Re: Model 4 double sided disk drives    |
|    04 Jul 08 11:07:42    |
      From: tlake@twcny.rr.com              > It was the cable - I wonder what purpose the verify command serves in       > cp/m.              Just what it implies: It does a read after write to make sure the data is       correctly written to disk. At least some versions of CP/M didn't do that       automatically so they wrote very fast but errors could creep in.              Tom Lake              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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