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- --AMIGADOS GUIDE V2.5--
- FORMAT
-
-
- USE:
- This command formats 1 Meg disks to AmigaDOS/CrossDOS standards
- depending on your machine type.
-
- PATH:
- SYS:System
-
- SYSTEM:
- 2.0 (enhanced), 2.1 (enhanced), 3.0 (enhanced)
-
- EXAMPLES:
- 1>FORMAT DRIVE DF0: Name "Mydisk"
- 1>FORMAT DRIVE DF1: Name "Mydisk" FFS
-
- NOTES:
- Format is equipped with various options to speed up disk read/write
- times and efficiency.
- These are explained below:
-
- OFS - Old File System
- Total Capacity - 830K
-
- FFS - Fast File System
- Total Capacity - 880K
-
- DIRCACHE - Directory Caching
- (speeds up directory reading)
-
- INTL - International Mode
- (Formats disk using the internal FS DOS type)
-
- Simply include the keywords at the end of the command line and that
- method will be used. (see example 2)
-