Rise and fall of MS-DOS floppy FORMAT program

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Oct 14 22:57:00 2002

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> > This may have been the very first (for me at least) of the by now
> > innumerable MS Gotchas
> Dunno about MS-DOS V6.22; I'll look it up in the format.exe source..

What's to know?
On ALL versions of FORMAT that have /T:x/N:y, x and y do NOT set values,
they are used to select WHICH format from a list of supported ones.


> (yes, we have the source, and no, we're not gonna fix it ;-)

How available is it? It was once included in the OEM adaptation kit for
2.11 and maybe 3.31. But I'd love to have a copy for newer version.
6.2x was my favorite version of DOS - "only time that the primary goal of
a new release of any MS product was to improve reliability over previous"
(as opposed to adding new features)

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Mon Oct 14 2002 - 22:57:00 BST

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