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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
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Subject: A floppy-only MS-DOS formatter?
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 09:18:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 09:18:18 1985
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Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
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We are going to be setting up a number of AT&T 6300's with hard disks in
one of our labs for student use.

Students will be expected to keep their files on floppies with only DOS,
compilers, utilities, etc. residing on the hard disk. 

We would like to make a format utility available, but wish to avoid the
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.)


Any pointers/advice/patches/code will be appreciated. Send replies by mail,
I will summarize if there is demand.


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