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Chapter 2 Program Instructions
Examples Issuing the statement FILES before and after a FORMAT "c:" statement
shows how the memory is affected. Note that system files starting with a
period character are not removed, since the FORMAT statement does not
contain any “A” flag:
FILES "c:",A
Files on c:
.theDefaultSetup 157 DIRECT 0
STDIO 2 APPLICATION 1
FILELIST.DAT 0
505856 bytes free 160 bytes used
Ok
FORMAT "c:"
Ok
FILES "c:",A
Files on c:
.theDefaultSetup 157
514048 bytes free 157 bytes used
Ok
In the following statement, a RAM-type memory card is formatted to MS-
DOS format in the immediate mode. The number of entries is increased from
208 (default) to 500 and the size of the sectors in decreased from 512 bps
(default) to 256 in order to make the card better suited for more but smaller
files. The “A” flag specifies “hard” formatting.
FORMAT "card1:",500,256,A
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