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Re: disk format question


Greetings, Warren Young!

>> The windows format.com

> format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days.  That includes the 
> DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME.  Under NT-derived 
> versions of Windows, "format" is a built-in command in cmd.exe.

You can easily check it with a simple batch file

:x
format /?
goto :x

and see that it actually calling format.com


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 09.01.2013, <22:11>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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