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From: cdl@aluxs.UUCP (MITCHELL)
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Subject: Finding out if a floppy is blank
Message-ID: <804@aluxs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 14:30:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 22 14:30:17 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 22:50:54 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
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	Does anyone know to find out if a floppy diskette you are about to
format is blank, without using the "DIR" command.

	I am writing a DBASEIII application, one its function is to format
a floppy diskette.  Using the 'dir' command  on a blank diskette yeilds
the error message "abort, retry or ignore" which is confusing to a new user
and could be very damaging.  I would like to avoid getting this message
however, at the same time having some reliable way to detect the
blank/non-blank status.

                      Thanks..

D. Mitchell
1247 Cedar Crest Blvd.
Allentown PA 18103
Room 3L-226B