Re: What about FORMAT?

Hi Brian,

> Format can verify floppy disks; but, it needs some work on the verification
> of hard disks.

I will be helping Andreas with scan disk, and ther is also a dosfsck comming,
what do you think of spawning one of these programs to do the work?

> Format can format fat32 but the fat32 format may not be completely
> compatible with other operating systems.  (i.e. Windows 9x.)  The fat32 file
> system is at least 99% of what is needed in order to work with other
> operating systems.

That is 99% good news ;-)

> Unfortunately, I have been extremely busy lately and haven't had time to

This is a very big club...

> Any patches to any of these programs are most welcome!  Please do not alter
> the programming style, though.

I hope that you can find some time soon. I will be helping with other things
in whatever time I can find. The real problem with FORMAT is not the coding,
but the information needed to catch up with you to beging anything...

Maybe what we can do is just get the surface scan procedure that Andreas is
working on and make it into a lib for both programs?

> Another version of Free FDISK is being worked on at this time.

FDISK is fine, FWIK it need only small improuvements :)
The normal and simple cases should work fine

Alain