========================== Formatter 2.7 =============================
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A  floppy  disk formatting program, written by Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel of
MXM.   Copyright,  © 1990 by MXM.  Shareware, all rights reserved.  No
guarantee  of  any  kind is made that the program(s) described in this
document are 100% reliable.  You use this material on your own risk.

============================== Purpose ===============================
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The  standard  'format'  command surely does a brilliant job, since it
gets  around  with  any device driver and partitions of any size.  But
which  data media is formatted most oftenly?  Floppy disks (3½" format
hardwired  to  the  Amiga  computer)  of  course.  'Formatter 2.7' was
written  to fit the niche for fast(er) and user friendlier floppy disk
formatting  programs.   It  also  shows  how to format file systems in
general and how to get AmigaDOS to accept them.

=============================== Usage ================================
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'Formatter  2.7'  can  be  called both from  Shell and Workbench. Note
that arp.library is required to run the program (Yuck!).

         The following command line parameters are supported:

Drive..........	This can be any disk drive from DF0:  through DF3:  as
		long  as it's really connected.  You will get an error
		message  if  the  disk  drive  cannot  be found in the
		current DOS mountlist.

NAME/K.........	The  name you wish the formatted disk to receive.  Any
		name longer than 31 characters will be truncated.

FAST/S.........	No  secret  fast formatting tricks yet, this option is
		similar to the 'QUICK' switch of the standard 'format'
		command:   if enabled only the root block and the boot
		block  of  the  disk  will  be rewritten (clearing all
		relevant  data).   If  your  disks  have  already been
		formatted clearing those blocks can save much time.

INSTALL/S......	If  you  want  to use the formatted disk as a bootable
		AmigaDOS disk,'Formatter 2.7' will install  it just as
		if you had used the AmigaDOS 'Install' command on it.

VERIFY/S.......	If   enabled,  each  write  access  to  disk  will  be
		verified,  i.e.  the disk blocks being written will be
		reread and compared with the source data.  Needless to
		say,  verification  slows  down  the  disk  formatting
		process  but  helps  to  tell  the good disks from the
		corrupt ones.

AUTOSTART/S....	If enabled, any disk inserted into the specified drive
		will be formatted automatically.  This saves some time
		if  lots  of  disks have to be formatted one after the
		other.

FFS/S..........	In  behalf of the new Kickstart release, the fast file
		system  is  supported  as well.  The disk receives the
		FFS IDs where the standard format program places them.

A  small  window  will pop up on the Workbench screen (right under the
mouse  pointer  if  possible).   The window will look like this (well,
roughly, I never claimed being a graphic artist, did I?):

      #X#Formatter2.6======================##|##
      |..   ..   ..   ..   ..   ..   ..   ..   | <- Track numbers
      ||    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
      |----------------------------------------|
      |                                        | <- Process indicator
      |------------+--+-------------+----------|
      | Auto start |  | Fast format |          | <- Some gadgets
      |------------+  +-------------+   Start  |
      |Verify write|  |Install disk |          | <- Some more gadgets
      |--------+-+-+------+-+-------++ +-------|
      |  DF0:  | |  DF1:  | |  DF2:  | |  DF3: | <- Drive selection
      |--------+ +--------+ +--------+ +-------|
      |         +------------------------------|
      | Name:   | Blank                        | <- Name string gadget
      |         +------------------------------|
      +----------------------------------------+

Control  should  be  intuitively  (why  shouldn't  it,  you're running
Intuition  anyway, aren't you?), if you've understood the command line
options  (to  which  the gadgets somehow correspond to) you should get
along with the rest of the program easily.

========================= Keyboard shortcuts =========================
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To  make  life  easier,  each  gadget  in  the  control  window can be
enabled/toggled  via  keyboard.  These shortcuts are supported through
the Intuition menu attached to the 'Formatter 2.7' window.

About... 		(-> ?)	Display a short program info.
Auto start		(-> A)	Toggle auto-start option
Fast format		(-> F)	Toggle fast formatting
Verify write		(-> V)	Toggle