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Old 03-15-2006
Read a SCO floppy disk under another OS...

I have formatted a floppy disk under SCO unix.
Is there a way I could read this disk under another
operating system e.g. Windows or Linux?
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Old 03-29-2006
Dos can't read disks that are in SCO format. Linux may be able to do so.
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