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- FMT2-S.BAT - Enables constant dual disk formatting
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- Enhanced by the Doctor for Public Domain
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- This simple batch file was developed as a solution to a friend of
- mine who formatted disks for his customers, as an extra service
- whenever they bought diskettes. Originally, he had used DOS's
- FORMAT.COM on its own, with a patch made to it that beeped when
- the "Format Another(Y/N)?" prompt came up. I made FM2-S.BAT so
- that all his secretary would have to do is keep putting in
- diskettes.
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- FMT2-S.BAT does the following, using DOS batch commands:
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- 1. Erases the screen
- 2. Beeps and Displays the message, "Formatting Drive B:....."
- 3. Suppresses the screen output of FORMAT.COM
- 4. Erases the screen
- 5. Beeps and Displays the message, "Formatting Drive A:....."
- 6. Suppresses again the screen output of FORMAT.COM
- 7. Re-executes itself
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- FMT2-S.BAT does the above in 1:46 - in a dual-sided, 9-sector format.
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- NOTE: BEFORE USING FMT2-S.BAT, INSTALL THE FOLLOWING FILES ON A 32KB
- RAMDISK, USING ANY AVAILABLE RAMDISK FUNCTION(ie QDXT 1/A, or
- RAMDISK 1, etc.) : UNLESS YOU ARE ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES WHO HAS A
- HARD DRIVE THEN JUST INSTALL THE FILES BELOW ON HARD DRIVE ALONG WITH
- THE DOS COMMAND.COM YOU WISH TO USE. TYPE FMT2-S ENTER
- COMMAND.COM (2.0 AND HIGHER)
- FORMAT.COM
- FMT2-S.BAT
- INPUT <- this file routes instructions
- to FORMAT.COM, bypassing the
- user input functions
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- To temporarily halt formatting, simply press Ctrl-NumLock.
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- To halt the loop, wait until Drive A: is being formatted, and hold
- the Ctrl-Break keys down. When FORMAT.COM is finished verifying
- Drive A:, it will break out of the loop.
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- 21 February 1987
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