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Re: How the heck do you format a disk with ProDos?
- Subject: Re: How the heck do you format a disk with ProDos?
- From: "Aaron Pulver" <aaronp@paulbunyan.net>
- Date: 1997/02/27
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Info Link
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Tilghman Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote in article
> I think there's a FORMAT command in the P8 code, so adding this
> command to BASIC.SYSTEM probably would not be that difficult. I
> wonder why Apple chose to leave out this command?
There isn't a FORMAT command for the built-in P8 5.25" disk driver, so you
have to use a program that implements a FORMAT. I think it was left out
for space reasons.
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Aaron Pulver
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