w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (03/01/89)
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CNFMT103.ARC Pop-up diskette formatter runs in background v1.3
Con>Format stands for Con(current) For(matter) and offers you the
capability of formatting diskettes "in the background" while other
work is being done on your computer.
Con>Format is a "pop-up" utility. That is, it stays dormant until a
particular combination of keys (which you specify yourself) is
depressed. Con>Format then opens a "window" on the display and
requests which drive to format and what kind of format to write. Once
this is done, the "window" disappears and does not reappear until
formatting is complete. In the meantime, you have full use of your
computer, excluding the diskette drives (you may use the hard disk).
Hence the term "background" formatter.
Con>Format works with 5.25" and 3.5" diskette drive types, and
provides formatting for 180K, 360K, 720K, 1.2M and 1.44M diskettes.
The format written is compatible with DOS versions 2.0 through 4.01
(the latest as of this writing).
Con>Format will "hold up" a diskette access from a running program if
a diskette is in the process of being formatted. A window "pops up"
to notify you of this occurrence. When formatting is complete, the
diskette access is performed and program execution continues.
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74]
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