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From: tomk@ur-laser.uucp (Tom Kessler)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: A floppy-only MS-DOS formatter?
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Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 11:34:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 11:34:35 1985
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>We would like to make a format utility available, but wish to avoid
>possibility of a student accidentally wiping out the hard disk.

>Does anyone, therefore, have or know of a utility which will only allow
>drive A: (and B: ?) to be formatted? ( The only such utility I know of is
>the version of FORMAT that comes with the Tandy 1000, but I'm not sure if
>it's legal to run that since the college owns no Tandys.)

But what about the guy who brings in his own copy of DOS on a sloppy
disk complete with his own format command. It doesn't take even an
above average type to figure this sort of thing out.-- 
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		   Tom Kessler {allegra |seismo }!rochester!ur-laser!tomk
Laboratory for Laser Energetics               Phone: (716)- 275 - 5101
250 East River Road
Rochester, New York 14623