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- ABFormatter: (c) 1991 Gregg Hungerford
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- ABFormatter is a floppy disk formatter for 1 or 2 floppy disk
- drives. As ABFormatter is in itself a multitasking program, both
- drives are formatted independently of each other and don't re-
- quire the same set up. Non-critical bad sectors are mapped out
- of the File Allocation Tables.
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- ABFormatter is run from one central dialog box with identical
- controls for each disk drive.
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- OPTIONS:
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- Selecting Drives:
- Toggle which drives are to be formatted by clicking directly
- on the buttons marked "Drive A" and "Drive B". IF you only have
- one floppy, you may only format Drive A (Drive B will be dis-
- abled).
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- Sides:
- Click directly on the current number of sides to toggle.
- NOTE: As a one sided floppy drive can't announce it's
- one sided-ness, you will run into problems if you
- attempt to format a disk as double sided on a one
- sided drive.
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- Tracks:
- Click directly on the current number of tracks to toggle
- the total number of tracks (80-83).
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- Sectors/Track:
- Click directly on the current number of sectors per track
- to toggle between 9 or 10 sectors per track.
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- Label:
- If a label is entered, it will be written to the disk
- directory.
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- Go:
- Click on this button (or press <RETURN>) to begin the
- format process.
- NOTE: If both drives are disabled, very little will happen...
- If a disk is write protected you will be given a couple
- chances to correct the problem without aborting that
- disk format operation.
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- Let Me Out Of Here:
- That little button in the upper lefthand corner of the
- dialog box. Aborts the program. Say g'night, Gracie.
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- Status Box:
- The status box will inform you of the progress of each
- format operation. You will be informed whether the format
- was good or if the disk was unusable.
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- SHAREWARE:
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- This program may be freely distributed as long as this doc
- file (ABFORMAT.DOC) is included. If you use this program and
- wish to encourage more programs of this nature, please send
- a $5.00 donation to :
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- G. Hungerford
- 1718 Ocala Ave. #117
- San Jose, Ca. 95122
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- Developed using TDI Modula-2/ST
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