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From: jjszucs@cbmvax.commodore.com (John J. Szucs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FFS on Floppies in 2.0
Message-ID: <13225@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Jul 90 15:08:43 GMT
References: <24692@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jjszucs@cbmvax (John J. Szucs)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <24692@snow-white.udel.EDU> GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu
(F. Michael Theilig) writes:
>     Shouldn't FFS be DEFAULT?
>
> --------
>      F. Michael Theilig  -  The University of Rhode Island at Little Rest
>                            GWO110 at URIACC.Bitnet
>                            GKZ117 at URIACC.Bitnet
>
>"Gooooood coffee."

FFS is not the default for FORMAT for compatibility, which was one of our
highest priorities throughout the development of 2.0. From Kickstart/Workbench
1.0 onward, a floppy formatted on any Amiga running any version of the
operating system has been readable by any other Amiga running any other
version of the operating system. By using FFS as a default, this floppy
compatibility would be lost unless the user specifically asked for it.

If you want a quick and easy way to format floppies under FFS, I'd suggest
using an alias like:

alias fformat "format [] ffs"

	jjszucs