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From: boykin@datagen.UUCP
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Subject: MKFS for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <25@datagen.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Sep-83 15:26:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 14 15:26:52 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Sep-83 06:41:15 EDT
Organization: Data General Dist. Systems, Westborough, MA
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This is really for romkey@mit-csr, but I can't seem to send mail directly
to him so I am posting my reply here.


Re: Not having a 'mkfs' type of capability under MS-DOS...

I'm not sure if this is available under PC-DOS (you never know what foolish
differences there are between 'generic' and 'IBM' versions); but at least 
on a generic MS-DOS system there is a /c option to format (i.e. format/c
or format -c) which "C"lears the disk structure.  This rebuilds the root 
directory and clears the file allocation table(s).  I think this is exactly
what you were looking for.

Joe Boykin
Data General
...(decvax!ittvax, allegra, rocky2)!datagen!boykin