>From: Joel Jacobson <jake@hooters.introl.com>
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 13:40:11 -0600 (CST)
>
>does anyone happen to have an fdformat program lying around? on a
>quick perusal, the only source i was able to find for such a beast
>was for the 68k port of linux...

You may be able to find one in the PR:

     646 gnats-ad port-i38 open      non-criti medium   net        there is no floppy diskette formatting utility on NetBSD/i386

To retrieve it, send a mail message to query-pr@netbsd.org with the
subject line below:

Subject: -F 646
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