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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Making Format a little nicer
Message-ID: <7144@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 15:08:56 GMT
References: <7141@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <7141@cbmvax.UUCP> higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom) writes:
>I became so irate the other day with the Format program's
>requirement that I type in stupid words like NAME and DRIVE
>that I wrote this little script and added the following aliases.

Obviously, Format's slightly hard to use for a reason...so you have to
think about what you're typing, and so are less likely to zap an important
disk.  However, since we're all power users here, we can override it,
as you've shown.  

A few slight improvements on the script...

.key DRIVE/A,NAME,ECHO/S,FFS/S,NOICONS/S,QUICK/S
.bra {
.ket }
.def NAME noname
if "{echo}" NOT EQ ""
    echo "Format {drive}*NName is {name}*NOptions {ffs} {noicons} {quick}"
endif
format drive {drive} name {name} {ffs} {noicons} {quick}
; s:fmt
 



You could also make it loop, with a SKIP BACK for those times
when you need to format multiple disks.  They'd all have the same
name, unless you got a bit fancy, of course.

		andy
  
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