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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Format (for netbsd): where is it??? Message-ID: <hastyCCuI28.DvJ@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Sep01.182438.12330@crash> <1993Sep04.013604.5223@crash> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1993 19:56:32 GMT Lines: 42 In article <1993Sep04.013604.5223@crash> warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff) writes: >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. Well, I have programmed and really don't nasty things to the OS what I am wondering now is if my disk will ever go bad :-) Lets see, I help port X11R5, brought to you XS3, messed around with the scheduler, help port Interviews, compiled postgress and drop in the patches for shared memory segments, the tasks go on and will not bored you any further. My have NFS running on my two PCs. I own IDE drives and one 1.2GB toshiba scsi drive. Good Day, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming