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      NNNNAAAAMMMMEEEE
           fl - floppy disc device driver

      DDDDEEEESSSSCCCCRRRRIIIIPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNN
           ////ddddeeeevvvv////ffffllll refers to the floppy disc drive in the Ridge 32
           cabinet. A file on the floppy disc is referred to by the
           device name, plus the //// character, plus its own name.
           ////ddddeeeevvvv////ffffllll////ddddoooogggg refers to file ddddoooogggg on the floppy disc.

           The floppy disc file name consists of 1 to 15 characters
           from the set [AAAA to ZZZZ, aaaa to zzzz, 0000 to 9999, and "...." ]. When
           specifying a pathname, upper- and lowercase characters are
           considered equivalent. The floppy disc directory stores
           names in uppercase only.

           The floppy disc must be doubled-sided, with double-density
           formatting following the IBM 3740 soft-sectored standard. A
           floppy disc is normally formatted by ROS utilities as
           double-sided, double-density with 512 bytes of data per
           block.

           The directory and file structure maintained on a floppy disc
           is compatible with the University of California, San Diego
           (UCSD) Pascal system format. This structure allows up to 77
           files per volume, with a single directory for the entire
           volume.

           ROS utilities are available to format a new floppy disc
           (zero(1)), to list the directory (dir(1)), and to duplicate
           the contents of the floppy (copyfloppy(1)). To compact the
           space allocation of a floppy disc, use copyfloppy(1).

      FFFFIIIILLLLEEEESSSS
           /dev/fl
           /drivers/fdlp

      DDDDEEEEVVVVIIIICCCCEEEE CCCCOOOODDDDEEEE
                                    _b_l_o_c_k-_t_y_p_e _o_r  _s_t_a_n_d_a_r_d
           _d_e_v_i_c_e _t_y_p_e         _m_a_j_o_r     _m_i_n_o_r     _c_h_a_r_a_c_t_e_r-_t_y_p_e _f_i_l_e _n_a_m_e

           floppy disc         3    0    block          /dev/fl

      SSSSEEEEEEEE AAAALLLLSSSSOOOO
           copyfloppy(1), dir(1), zero(1)











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