From:	Daniel Barker <sokal AT holyrood DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	FORMAT A: /U crashes BASH and Windows 98
Date:	Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:58:55 +0100
Organization:	Edinburgh University
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Earlier this year there was a thread with subject "bash and format don't
mix", about problems with FORMAT applied to a write-protected disk under
BASH.

My problem is perhaps related to this. I have found BASH crashes, and the
machine freezes so thoroughly that I can't even re-start with
CTRL-ALT-DELETE, if I issue the command FORMAT A: /U from a BASH prompt
under Windows 98. The disks I tried this with were NOT write protected.

I mention this mainly as a sort of bug report. I can avoid the problem
easily enough, of course, by running FORMAT from COMMAND rather than BASH. 


Daniel Barker,
Biocomputing Research Unit,
Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology,
University of Edinburgh,
King's Buildings,
Mayfield Road,
Edinburgh
EH9 3JR
United Kingdom

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