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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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