<OT> Compaq file system??

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, dep wrote:
% begin  Tony Alfrey's  quote:
% | Sorry about the off-topic question, but my wife will be grateful
% | for possible help.
% | My wife has a conventional 3 1/2" floppy that she formatted eons
% | ago on an old Compaq computer.  She says
% | a) the old Compaq would read floppies formatted on an IBM PC.
% | b) floppies formatted on her Compaq could not be read on other PCs.
% |
% | Sounds to me like a poorly-aligned floppy drive but maybe it's
% | something more subtle.
% | My box says it can't recognize the file system on the floppy (when
% | using the 'auto' option in the mount command).  Is there any
% | possibility that the old Compaq had some wierd file system for
% | floppies (obviously a question for the old farts among the list 
% | ;-)  ).
% | Thanks very much!
% 
% is it a 720k floppy? eons ago, those were the 3.5 floppies.

Hey, there's a thought:

dd if=/dev/fd0u720 of=/blah/blarg

Kurt
-- 
You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.