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This program rewrites the disk root directory and file allocation table on
floppy disks or a ram drive. Drives A and B are treated as floppy disks and
the last drive on your system is treated as a ram disk.
For floppy disks, you are prompted to press Y to reformat a disk or N to quit.
The Y option is used for single disk reformatting and assumes that the
proper diskette is already in the specified drive and terminates when that
diskette has been reformatted.
For ram disk operation, the program acts as if you had entered the Y option
even if you dont.
Caution: If you are not using any ram disk, but you do have a hard disk,
you should probably not use this program.
Try typing:
BLANK
The program will respond with a screen of information including the drive
letters that are acceptable to it.
For example:
My system has a hard disk which is divided into two drives (C and D) and I
have installed a ram disk as drive E. If I run BLANK with no parameters,
it responds as follows:
Syntax: BLANK x:[ Y]
Where: x = diskette drive id ( A or B or E )
drive E does not need Y because it is assumed to be a ram disk.
[ Y] = used to reformat a single diskette
Function:
Quickly reformats multiple or single diskettes.
All files deleted, including hidden, system, and label.
On your system, drive E will be replaced with the last drive. If you have no
hard disk or ram disk, this will be drive B; though drive B is NOT treated as a
ram disk but as a floppy.
. If y