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Re: disk format question
Greetings, Christopher Faylor!
Sorry, Christopher, I've had some troubles locally, and didn't see the other
replies before I sent mine.
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:12:02PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>Greetings, Warren Young!
>>
>>>> The windows format.com
>>
>>> format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That includes the
>>> DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME. Under NT-derived
>>> versions of Windows, "format" is a built-in command in cmd.exe.
>>
>>You can easily check it with a simple batch file
>>
>>:x
>>format /?
>>goto :x
>>
>>and see that it actually calling format.com
> I think we have exhausted this issue. Obviously some people have found
> a format program on their hard drives.
:)
> Since there is no Cygwin
> component here, I'd appreciate it if everyone could all move on from
> this subject.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 10.01.2013, <06:26>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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