Date   : Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:17:55 +0100 (BST)
From   : Michael McConnell <soruk@...>
Subject: Re: Format woes

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Daniel Luton wrote:

> Can someone please tell me what the command is to format a floppy disc on
> the BBC?  I've managed to delete files using *WIPE and *DESTROY, but had to
> use several wildcard commands to delete all the files...I want to wipe the
> disc completely.  The computer is using the Acorn DFS.

Depends on the DFS version, *FORM40 or *FORM80 (40 or 80 track) should do
the trick. On older DFS versions this was supplied as a utility on disc.

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