Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-beagle.cts.com!alank From: alank@pro-beagle.cts.com (Alan Krause) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Formatting Routine Message-ID: <53.chatter.infoapple@pro-beagle> Date: 6 Dec 89 16:53:29 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 8 Would anyone have a quick formatting routine for formatting ProDOS 5 1/4 floppies??? I know that ProDOS does not have any built in format routines, so that limits you to the 'direct' access disk commands, but I'm not real confident in doint this, since I wiped out track $00 of my merlin 8/16 disk doing this (OOOPS!)... Please dop me a line if ya can help me out.. alank