| From: | Dariusz Gac |
| Date: | 29 Aug 2001 at 20:23:06 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement |
Hello Jonathan,
In Your message I read:
>>> You would have to write your own replacement format.module, or do
>>> what I did and add a Format entry in the user menu and have that
>>> use OS3.9's (or whatever) format command instead.
>> IMHO better to create new internal command called Format :)... it
>> will overrite original Dopus' Format even in Icons:FormatDisk menu
>> in tittle bar...
> Sounds good to me. :) The new internal command could be just a
> script that loads the OS format program, could it? There's the
> question of how to supply arguments - the format program would have
> to have the option of this in its syntax and I don't think it
> has...Just checked- it does.
If You are Workbench3.9 user then You can use its REAction-based
Format command for this but I do not know if it works o.k. above
4GB... anybody knows ?
And generally what I am trying to do is - more or less - what You
wrote :) I try to create a simple new Arexx format.module using
Format64 AmigaDOS command... I hope I will be first in this race !
:) Do You take a part ?
Copyright (c) by Darek A.D. 2001