X-Recipient:	archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status:	No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE
X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
X-Mail-Handler:	Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn
X-Report-Abuse-To:	abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information)
X-MHO-User:	U2FsdGVkX19IiyBEKLiGfeaHEDNzPaJP
Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2013 14:55:31 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: disk format question
Message-ID:	<20130109195531.GB1805@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<50EC265F DOT 2010507 AT mailme DOT ath DOT cx> <50EC37EA DOT 8000308 AT etr-usa DOT com> <998869087 DOT 20130109221202 AT mtu-net DOT ru>
MIME-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<998869087.20130109221202@mtu-net.ru>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id:	<cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:12:02PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote:
>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

I think we have exhausted this issue.  Obviously some people have found
a format program on their hard drives.  Since there is no Cygwin
component here, I'd appreciate it if everyone could all move on from
this subject.

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -