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From: ".oO The Joker Oo." <jmcdonal AT pcug DOT org DOT au>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.asm.x86,rec.games.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: DESPERATE: I need partition thingy!
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:52:54 +1000
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On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Scott Earnest wrote:

> Of course, changing the partition table by hand isn't exactly a great idea.  (I 
> should hope you kept a backup of the info in case something didn't work 
> correctly!)

Of course...

> Some suggestions (which you could have found if you took the time to do a 
> little research):

If only I could have...

> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/fips15.zip
> (probably the DOS version of the Linux FIPS also mentioned in this thread)
> 
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/presz115.zip
> A DOS partition resizer, haven't tried it, but I suppose it should work.

Again, can somebody out thar grab something for me?

> Oh, BTW, why not just backup, repartition, format, and restore?

Yeah, you wanna send me a 750 disks and come round here and do it for me? 
Anybody?

Joker

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