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From:Steve & Ulli Bowman
Date:30 Aug 2001 at 02:43:04
Subject:[D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement

G'day Dariusz Gac,

On 30-Aug-01, on the subject of "[D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement", you
spoke thus:

> 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 ?
>

Sure does. One of SetPatch's jobs is to provide >4GB support. And the
current Format command, which dates from the OS3.5 BB1, works with >4GB
drives.

> 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 ?
>

Why don't you have it call the AmigaDOS Format command instead? It does
the job.



Steve Bowman - Sydney, Australia

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