Yep. I can probably burn a floppy for you if you put the programs and data 
software somewhere i can get to it. I’ll try and then you can tell me where to 
send the floppies. 

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> On Feb 25, 2023, at 16:17, Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> I read that Qrst was just a file format. To quote The QRST disc image format 
>> was used by Compaq to distribute disk images of diagnostic software. The 
>> file QRST.EXE or QRST5.EXE would be supplied with the disc images to write 
>> them to a floppy drive.
>> -So do you have the QRST programs available?
> 
> Yes. However the QRST program is a 16 bit app that requires physical access 
> to a real floppy controller. Thus it cannot work on a Windows 10 system with 
> DOSBOX as the floppy is USB and I don't think DOSBOX emulates a true floppy 
> interface at the BIOS level.
> 
> Modern archive tools like 7zip do not appear to have support for QRST format. 
> It's compressed in some odd way, so it can't just be dd'ed to a floppy sector 
> by sector.
> 
> Never dull.
> CZ

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