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- ┌────────────────┐
- │ AFORMAT │
- │ By │
- │ Tom Doerner │
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-
- (FOR HARD DISK USERS WITH 2 FLOPPY'S)
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- INTRODUCTION
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- Formatting disks is a chore that no one likes. You can if you want
- order pre-formatted disks, but that costs extra. So what do you do?
- You can format a disk each time that you need one, or sit down and
- format a whole bunch at a time. I am personally in the second group
- that does a whole bunch at a time, and I HATE having to answer the
- question "Format Another (Y/N)", pressing the "Y" key, and then having
- to press the "Enter" key twice, just to start the process all over
- again for the next floppy. This gets to be a pain real fast !!!
-
- There are quite a few utilities out there that formats a floppy in
- about 30 seconds, and they work fine except...
- 1. They format a disk, even with bad sectors in it, and then you lose
- data when you write to the disk.
- 2. They abort if they find one bad sector, and won't format at all.
- 3. Refuse to work with the 3.5" disks because of the different format.
-
- This handy batch file utility will continuously format disks using
- DOS's Format.Com in both "A" and "B" drives, regardless if it is a 5.25
- or a 3.5 inch drive or mix of the two. It will alternate between the
- two WITHOUT you having to press the "Y" key, and then press the "Enter"
- key twice.
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- INSTRUCTIONS
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- Put the batch files in the same directory of your hard disk as
- FORMAT.COM (or put a path to it) insert a floppy in each drive and then
- type...
-
- AUTOFORM
-
- It will start with "A" drive and format the floppy, and then switch to
- "B" drive and format that floppy.
-
- After it does one format on each drive it will display "Strike any key
- when ready". If you have inserted new flops to be formatted, just hit
- the "Enter" key and it will format the two new floppy's.
-
- If you don't want to format any more floppy's, at the prompt just type
- in CTRL-C and you will be returned to DOS.
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- SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
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- If you are like me, I don't want to hit any key at all. What you can do
- is use any ASCII word processor, and delete the PAUSE statement from
- AFORMAT.BAT file. What this will do is go into a "loop" of formatting
- each drive in turn, NEVER having to hit a key, and it will NEVER stop
- formatting. The only way out of it is to REBOOT !!!
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- FINAL STATEMENT
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- I am making this a PUBLIC DOMAIN utility, and request NO money for it,
- or do I take any responsibility for its use or mis-use. The only thing
- that I ask is that you keep ALL the files together, when passing it on
- to a BBS, and if you feel so inclined, drop in and visit my BBS and
- leave me a message as to how you like the utility. Good Luck...
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