Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!chasm
From: chasm@killer.UUCP (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ms-dos 3.3 question (concerning FORMAT)
Summary: is OS|2 leaking into the DOS docs too?
Keywords: msdos 3.3,format,microsoft docs,switches
Message-ID: <2968@killer.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 22:09:17 GMT
References: <852@hubcap.UUCP> <1242@nbires.nbi.com>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
Lines: 20

[More for that awful line eater]

In article <1242@nbires.nbi.com>, maa@nbires.nbi.com (Mark Armbrust) writes:
> In article <852@hubcap.UUCP> kaires@hubcap.UUCP (Robert G Kaires) writes:
> 
> 	"Copies the operating system files listed in the file 
> 	'formats.tbl' from the disk in the default drive to the 
> 	newly formatted disk.  The newly formated disk must be 
> 	1.2 megabytes or greater in size; otherwise FORMAT 
> 	rejects the command."

> The 3.30 OEM version of FORMAT explicitly copies MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS, and
> COMMAND.COM when the /S option is used.

There is a file of that name (or very much like it) used to specify the files
to be copied on a "format/s" command in OS/2.  Do we have two OSes colliding
here in the paper world?

Charles Marslett
chasm@killer.UUCP . . . .