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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Undocumented flag to FORMAT
Message-ID: <1578@agora.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 01:54:13 GMT
References: <3489@uokmax.UUCP:
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <3489@uokmax.UUCP:, by noel@uokmax.UUCP (Bamf):
: 
: The 1.3 version of FORMAT has a flag [INHIBIT] that is not mentioned
: in the documentation.   What exactly does this inhibit?  (I'm
: ignoring the multitude of jokes that this prompts, in favor of knowledge...)

	[INHIBIT] inhibits the drive validation mechanism. Try this, use
the inhibit option on a drive with no disk in, then insert a disk at the
RETURN prompt... Then try it again without the INHIBIT flag set. Adding
the INHIBIT flag allowed them to use the same code for CLI and Workbench
formats...

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