Broken floppy disks

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Well, DOS 6.x had the /f switch on the FORMAT command--which told DOS 
> to forget about trying to read the disk, just format it.  I believe 
> that DOS 7.x ignores /f.  And for DOS, there are always third-party 
> formatters.

I think you're referring to the /u switch, not /f.  /f was used as a 
shortcut to the size (ie. /F:720 was the same as /T:80 /N:9)
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