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        !            20: .TH RXFORMAT 8 "June 24, 1990"
        !            21: .UC 5
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: rxformat \- format floppy disks
        !            24: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            25: .B rxformat
        !            26: [
        !            27: .B \-d
        !            28: ] special
        !            29: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            30: The
        !            31: .I rxformat
        !            32: program formats a diskette in the specified drive
        !            33: associated with the special device
        !            34: .IR special .
        !            35: (
        !            36: .I Special
        !            37: is normally /dev/rx0, for drive 0, or /dev/rx1,
        !            38: for drive 1.)
        !            39: By default, the diskette is formatted single density;
        !            40: a
        !            41: .B \-d
        !            42: flag may be supplied to force double density formatting.
        !            43: Single density is compatible 
        !            44: with the IBM 3740 standard (128 bytes/sector). 
        !            45: In double density, each sector
        !            46: contains 256 bytes of data.
        !            47: .PP
        !            48: Before formatting a diskette
        !            49: .I rxformat
        !            50: prompts for verification if standard input is a tty
        !            51: (this allows a user to cleanly
        !            52: abort the operation; note that
        !            53: formatting a diskette will destroy any existing data).
        !            54: Formatting is done by the hardware.
        !            55: All sectors are zero-filled.
        !            56: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            57: `No such device' means that the drive is not ready, 
        !            58: usually because no disk is in the drive or the drive door is open.
        !            59: Other error messages are selfexplanatory.
        !            60: .SH FILES
        !            61: /dev/rx?
        !            62: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            63: rx(4)
        !            64: .SH AUTHOR
        !            65: Helge Skrivervik
        !            66: .SH BUGS
        !            67: A floppy may not be formatted if the
        !            68: header info on sector 1, track 0 has been damaged.  Hence, it is not
        !            69: possible to format a completely degaussed disk. 
        !            70: (This is actually a problem in the hardware.)

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