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- ERASE ST Programmer's Manual ERASE
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- NAME
- erase - quick and complete erasure of a floppy disk
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- SYNOPSIS
- erase [ab] [y]
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- DESCRIPTION
- erase will do an immediate and very fast erase of a floppy disk.
- It will erase single or double sided diskettes, without altering
- the formatting. The first parameter must be either 'a' or 'b' to
- indicate which drive to erase. If no second parameter is provided,
- erase will request a confirmation before erasing the disk. If the
- second parameter is 'y', the disk will be erased with no confirmation.
- The quick erase is accomplished by overwriting the File Allocation
- Tables and directories to give the appearance of a newly formatted
- diskette.
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- BUGS
- None known.
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- AUTHOR
- George R. Woodside PPN 76537,1342
- 5219 San Feliciano Drive
- Woodland Hills, Ca. 91364
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- Printed 02/07/87 1
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