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.
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