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From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: A floppy-only MS-DOS formatter?
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Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 20:22:39 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 28 20:22:39 1985
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> Does anyone, therefore, have or know of a utility which will only allow
> drive A: (and B: ?) to be formatted?

What I would probably do is write a quicky C program to ask for the drive
letter, make sure it is A: or B: (or whatever you like), and either put out
a usage message or exec IBM's format.com.  Depending on your choice of C
compiler, the function to be called to perform the exec might be exec(),
fork(), or system().  If you have more than one, I would recommend system(),
since then all you have to do is pass a DOS command line to it.  That's easy.
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