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- From: hemmer@hemmer.adsp.sub.org (Franz Hemmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: WB2.04 Format Program
- Message-ID: <hemmer.01vs@hemmer.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 16:15:24 GMT
- Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmden!hemmer@cbmvax.commodore.com (Franz Hemmer)
- Organization: InterActivsion
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- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
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- In article <1992Aug25.211331.3639@darwin.ntu.edu.au> hoffmann@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann) writes:
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- > Hi, does anyone know what the Inhibit swich is supposed to do. One more thing, I
-
- Where do you see this Inhibit switch ? Anyway, the Inhibit() function of
- dos.library locks the drive from acceess to others, giving you the '???' icon
- on the Workbench.
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- > thought that FFS was the default option in WB2.04, so how comes that I always
- > have to type FFS when I am formatting disks?
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- For floppys, the default is NOFFS, for harddrives or others, Format uses the
- information specified by the HDToolBox program or the MountList to determine
- the the DOS type and file system (this taken from the Bantam AmigaDOS manual
- 3rd Editition).
-
- > Arthur Hoffmann
-
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