1 Short: NSD-aware Format command with source
2 Author: Pavel Fedin <sonic_amiga@rambler.ru>
3 Uploader: Pavel Fedin <sonic_amiga@rambler.ru>
6 Architecture: ppc-morphos
8 BH Format is intended to be a compatible replacement for Format
9 under various operating systems of Amiga family with important additions:
11 * It can perform low-level formats (or fake formats, as they usually are)
12 on drives larger than 4 GB.
14 * It will warn you if the device to be formatted is misconfigured or if
15 your file-system or if your disk is too large for your current device
16 driver or file-system to handle (only for m68k).
18 * It allows you to specify file-system type (DosType) and device flags
19 directly. This will be particularly useful in conjunction with firth-
20 coming improvements to Francis Swift's XFS package.
22 * It can create a default disk icon, following the same rules as the
23 DefIcons program from NewIcons does.
25 * It has a GUI (native MorphOS version lacks it), can be used as a module for
28 It currently lacks localisation, some error reporting code, and good
29 documentation. However, full source code is included and licensed
30 under the GNU GPL, so perhaps I can get some help with this...
32 Please send bug reports, success reports, fixes and improvements to
38 email: sonic_amiga@rambler.ru