Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!krb20699 From: krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Formatting Routine Message-ID: <113300213@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 9 Dec 89 10:40:22 GMT Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:<53.chatter.infoapple@pro-beagle:-33:uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:113300213:000:338 Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!krb20699 Dec 8 03:31:00 1989 The program I use most of the time to format disks is ShrinkIt. The format routines in v2.1 really fly. You may ask the author, Andy Nicholas, if he can give you any pointers. He's the only person I'm sure of that both reads the net and has written (or at least implemented) a format routine. Ken. ken-b@uiuc.edu