MS#_____.$B [0/2]

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From Eudgine Palenock To All 12 December 1998

Hello, Igor!

Once, 08 Dec 98, someone Igor Krauklis wrote to Eudgine Palenock
on the topic 'MS#_____.$B [0/2]'...

EP>> Well, the problem is that there are CODERS who think
EP>> that drive A is always there... And in the subject there is not even a poll for the keyboard, where
EP>> it is waiting for the disk in A...

IK> :-/ is it like “without drive A”? :-o
IK> Should I boot from “b” or something? ;)

with C or D...

Sincerely, Evgeniy aka EVP.


From Andrew Lee To All 13 December 1998

Hello Alexey!
once 11-11-98 at exactly 21:53:02
Alexey Ivanov wrote to Vladimir Klymus about "MS#_____.$B [0/2]" ...


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AI> number of sectors. And the last two bytes are the checksum. It is considered
AI> it is simple - all the previous 15 bytes are summed up, the number is multiplied by
AI> 257 and the sum_of_numbers_from_0_to_14 is added, i.e. 105.

So, in my opinion, you can just sort out all the previous bytes and the result
will be the same, at least that’s what I did and everything seemed to be
normal (I can’t say for sure right now, I need to look at my source
on the PC)

With best wishes, Andrew Wizard.


From Igor Krauklis To All 14 December 1998

EP> with C or D...

From a screw or something? Or is trdos so cunning? ;)

Well, that's all...
Sincerely, Igor.
/VSPG/Discovery Group.

-=- e-mail: Igor_Krauk...@zxnet.spb.ru

From Eudgine Palenock To All 17 December 1998

Hello, Igor!

Once upon a time, 14 Dec 98, someone Igor Krauklis wrote to Eudgine Palenock