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Fm: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317
To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)

Kev,

The 'universal' format is NOT a standard, it is a 'type' of format that
hopefully everyone will be able to support. For a software house a common
format to distribute software is important. It doesn't really matter that other
formats are used by individual companies as long as at least one common format
is supported by everyone. With the advent of many new disk drives with
different capabilities and companies trying to get the most out of them this
would seem reasonable.

MW doesn't force anyone to use any particular format which has caused problems
for users. We can support the various formats although I would prefer to only
have to deal with one.

Mike was the first person that bought a 68K version of software and tried to
read it on a CoCo. He only tried this because he doesn't have a 68K machine
yet. We have been shipping OSK software on this format for years. Until I know
what format you guys are using and what you support how else could I proceed.

Frank

PS. What formats ARE you using on the MM1?

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