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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:59:27 +0100
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Subject: Re: disk format question
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On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Warren Young  wrote:
> On 1/8/2013 06:59, bartels wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.

Your statements are contradicted by evidence:

$ ls -l /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/format.com
-rwxrwx---+ 2 ???????? ???????? 35K Nov  2  2006
/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/format.com*

$ file /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/format.com
/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/format.com: PE32 executable (console)
Intel 80386, for MS Windows

$ strings /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe | grep -wi format
<no output>

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