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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)rxformat.8v 6.3 (Berkeley) 6/3/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH RXFORMAT 8V "June 3, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 5
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: rxformat \- format floppy disks
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B /etc/rxformat
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B \-d
        !            15: ] special
        !            16: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            17: The
        !            18: .I rxformat
        !            19: program formats a diskette in the specified drive
        !            20: associated with the special device
        !            21: .IR special .
        !            22: (
        !            23: .I Special
        !            24: is normally /dev/rx0, for drive 0, or /dev/rx1,
        !            25: for drive 1.)
        !            26: By default, the diskette is formatted single density;
        !            27: a
        !            28: .B \-d
        !            29: flag may be supplied to force double density formatting.
        !            30: Single density is compatible 
        !            31: with the IBM 3740 standard (128 bytes/sector). 
        !            32: In double density, each sector
        !            33: contains 256 bytes of data.
        !            34: .PP
        !            35: Before formatting a diskette
        !            36: .I rxformat
        !            37: prompts for verification if standard input is a tty
        !            38: (this allows a user to cleanly
        !            39: abort the operation; note that
        !            40: formatting a diskette will destroy any existing data).
        !            41: Formatting is done by the hardware.
        !            42: All sectors are zero-filled.
        !            43: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            44: `No such device' means that the drive is not ready, 
        !            45: usually because no disk is in the drive or the drive door is open.
        !            46: Other error messages are selfexplanatory.
        !            47: .SH FILES
        !            48: /dev/rx?
        !            49: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            50: rx(4V)
        !            51: .SH AUTHOR
        !            52: Helge Skrivervik
        !            53: .SH BUGS
        !            54: A floppy may not be formatted if the
        !            55: header info on sector 1, track 0 has been damaged.  Hence, it is not
        !            56: possible to format a completely degaussed disk. 
        !            57: (This is actually a problem in the hardware.)

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