echo Y| format c: /u (For English versions)
echo J| format c: /u (For dutch versions)

Gotta love inconsistency.

Sjeesss, Albert you should have remembered this, as I recall we both took
the same course _Basic MSDOS_.

GreetZ,


Michiel

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David
Heremans
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 3:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sorry about the HTML :/


On Tuesday 27 March 2001 15:02, you wrote:
> > Indeed the only good command had to be FORMAT C: /U /Y so that he didn't
>
> ask
>
> > that stupid "Are you sure (yes/no)" question. Ofcourse you were sure !!
> >
> > David
>
> actually /y doesn't work... Format is NOT a command you use often (for
hard
> disks) :)

Tried to look it up, apparently the FORMAT of dos,win9x and NT accept each
different parameters. Consistency is hard to maintain for them.... Luckely
they all want something like C: or D: and /U also is generic.


David

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