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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!network.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!crash!warelock From: warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff) Subject: Re: Format (for netbsd): where is it??? Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA Date: 04 Sep 93 01:36:03 PDT Message-ID: <1993Sep04.013604.5223@crash> References: <1993Sep01.182438.12330@crash> Lines: 21 Tom Zacharoff (warelock@crash.cts.com) wrote: : If not, is there anyone who knows details of how and where all this stuff : was ported from and how to get a copy of the source for the BSD format : command? I'm desperate. I'll learn C if I have to. So what is the deal? Did this message not get delivered around the world via Usenet? If I can read it and post a reply to it I find it *very* hard to believe no one else can. So it must not be that... Maybe if I turn up the volume: WHERE IS THE FORMAT COMMAND? DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A WORKING, PORTED VERSION OF A DISK FORMATTING/MEDIA VERIFYING/BAD144 COMPATIBLE PROGRAM FOR NETBSD? Do you all think you can get by without a program like this? Bad144 is a good thing but to think you can just throw netbsd on a hard disk with bad areas you may not even know about is just plain dumb. I'm doing it now because I have no choice. It really sucks to have to deal with an unstable unix box that doesn't have to be like this. Somebody please respond. Thanks.