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From: emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Floppy Format Program for XT
Summary: Can't resist it
Message-ID: <345@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Date: 3 Jan 90 18:12:27 GMT
References: <17537@rpp386.cactus.org>
Organization: Monotype ADG, Cambridge, UK
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In article <17537@rpp386.cactus.org>, aubrey@rpp386.cactus.org (Aubrey McIntosh) writes:
> This program works in MS-DOS under Logitech 3.x.  It is hard coded
> to format a 3.5" drive in drive A: (/dev/fd0) to 720kb.  The user
> 
> I am looking for someone to correspond with as I translate it into C.
> [lots of clever stuff deleted] 


try this:

#include <system.h>

main()
{
	system ("format a:") ;
}


No apologies to those without a sense of humour!

Dave E.