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- SISFMT 1.0
- RASIS Floppy Disk Formatter
-
- SisFmt is supplied with RASIS, which is (c) Rand Nowell, RaLin
- Enterprises, and as such falls under all the Copyright, Distribution
- and Disclaimer statements found in the file RASIS.DOC.
-
- SisFmt is supplied fully functional, and has no limitations on use.
- I do request that you do NOT distribute SisFmt as a separate program.
- However, if you decide that RASIS does not suit your needs, but you
- would like to continue to use SisFmt, you are welcome to do so.
-
- SisFmt may be run two ways:
-
- 1. Called from the External Menu in RASIS
- 2. Called from the DOS command line.
-
- The only difference in the two methods, is that when SisFmt is called
- from the command line, it will Clear the Screen. When called from
- RASIS, the screen is not cleared.
-
- SISFMT will NOT format your hard drive.
-
- There are no parameters to give, SisFmt is entirely interactive with the
- user once it has been started. So, the command to use SisFmt is very
- simply SISFMT <ENTER>
-
- SisFmt will present a Window, in which it will prompt for information, and
- display all its messages.
-
- These will be covered in the order presented:
-
- o Drive to Format (A or B):
- Simply press the letter corresponding to the floppy drive
- you wish to format.
-
- o Checking Disk....
- SisFmt checks to see if any files exist on the selected floppy,
- if so, you will be asked if it should continue. Pressing N will abort
- the formatting.
-
- o Disk Type? (1=360 2=1.2 3=720 4=1.44)
- Here you specify the format you wish to do
-
- o Verify? (Y or N)
- If you wish SisFmt to verify each track as its formatted, answer Yes.
- This will slow down the formatting a small amount.
-
- o Volume Label?
- If you would like a volume label written to the disk, enter it here.
- Press ENTER to NOT write a volume label.
-
- o Insert Disk and Press <ENTER>
- Insert the floppy to be formatted, and press the ENTER key.
-
- o Drive Type is:
- SisFmt will attempt to determine the type of floppy drive, and
- display this information.
-
- o Message....
- As the formatting process takes place, SisFmt will display which
- track is being formatted, and the percentage done. If Verify is
- ON, it will display a V in place of % when verifying.
- If there is an error, the error message will be displayed instead.
-
- o Format Another? (Y or No)
- You can format another floppy by answering Yes, or exit back to DOS
- or the calling program.
-
- NOTE:
- Pressing ESC at any time OTHER than during the format process, will
- abort the program.
-
- I hope you find SisFmt a useful addition to the RASIS package!
-
- Rand Nowell
- RaLin Enterprises - "Cowboy Software!"
-