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By: Al Rosser     Wiltshire, England, UK  
Date: Mar 08,2003 at 06:26
In Response to: Use DMF (Frances Wohlfelder)

> My recommendation - use Alkonost Maxformat or WinImage to reformat your floppy
> to DMF which then gives you 1.68MB available space compared to the standard
> 1.44MB.

> The trade off is that the floppy can then hold fewer files at root level because
> the DMF standard uses a smaller file root table, but you can get round this
> either by having just the 16 or so files you absolutely need OR by creating a
> subdirectory on the floppy and then you can have as many files as you like.

> Works great for me, I have Ztree and several must have utilities (all UPX'd of
> course) and still 150K+ diskette space to spare!

> -- Frances

Excellent - thanks Frances!
Must admit haven't used UPX or even heard of DMF. I'll be using them from now on! :-)
Al

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