VECTOR 4 USER'S MANUAL
VECTOR 4
CP/M RESIDENT COMMANDS
6.
It
will
take
several
minutes
for
the
program
to
erase
and
then
format
the
disk. When
the
program
is
finished,
the
screen
will display:
FORMAT COMPLETE
You
can
now
copy
any
information
to
the
disk by using PIP, STORE, or
GENSYS. Be
sure
to
read
the
instructions
for
the
program
you
will
be
using.
Options Available With FORMAT
Entering
the
command
FORMAT
[RETURN]
with
no option runs
the
regular
FORMAT program, prompting
you
with
the
drives
for
which
your
system
is
configured.
(The
actual
display
will
be
different
from
system
to
system,
reflecting
the
type
of
storage
media
used
by
your
disk
drives.)
A
typical
display
is
as
follows:
DRIVE: [A] 5 INCH WINCHESTER -
SURFACE 0,1
[B] 5 INCH WINCHESTER - SURFACE 2,3
[C] 5 INCH SINGLE
SIDED FLOPPY
£D]
5 INCH DOUBLE SIDED FLOPPY
MAKE
SELECTION FROM ABOVE:
Once
again,
note
that
the
actual
display
may
not
look
like
the
one
pictured
here.
But
in
all
cases
you will have one
of
three
choices:
•
format
one or more
surfaces
of
the
hard
disk (where applicable)
•
format
a
singl~ided
floppy
diskette
(in
appropriate
drive)
•
format
a
doubl~ided
floppy
diskette
(in
appropriate
drive)
The
screen
will display:
WARNING - PROCEDURE
ER.t\.SES
DATA
If
you choose one
of
the
floppy drives,
the
screen
will display:
INSERT
DISKETTE AND
PRESS
[RETURN]
TO
BEGIN,
[CTRL
C]
TO
ABORT
Rev. A - 09-01-82
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