14 Oct
2002
14 Oct
'02
6:57 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
What's to know?
On ALL versions of FORMAT that have /T:x/N:y, x and y do NOT set values,
they are used to select WHICH format from a list of supported ones.
This may have
been the very first (for me at least) of the by now
innumerable MS Gotchas
Dunno about MS-DOS V6.22; I'll look it up in the
format.exe source.. (yes, we have the source, and no, we're not gonna
fix it ;-)
How available is it? It was once included in the OEM adaptation kit for
2.11 and maybe 3.31. But I'd love to have a copy for newer version.
6.2x was my favorite version of DOS - "only time that the primary goal of
a new release of any MS product was to improve reliability over previous"
(as opposed to adding new features)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com