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Re: Command-line operable FDISK substitute

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 10:00
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In <4a57ik$ho5@sundog.tiac.net> djones@tiac.net (Don Jones) writes:

>In article <4a4v4j$1n8p@tako.info.ucla.edu>,
>Steve Andres <steven@ucla.edu> wrote:
>>Does anyone have a command line FDISK substitue?  I'm trying to write a 
>>workstation rebuild utility for a computer lab and it needs to run a batch file 
>>that will delete and recreate the partition, format it, and unzip a file.

>Just a thought. Create a file with all of the necessary keystrokes,
>for example, to view information under DOS 5.0 fdisk you need to hit
>4 and then the enter key.  When you are done viewing the information,
>you need to hit ESC twice.  Create a file KEYS and put '4<CR><ESC><ESC>'
>without the quotes into it.  Then redirect the file to FDISK like:
>
>fdisk <keys
>
>good luck,

He'll need a lot of good luck because FDISK (the DOS flavour) doesn't
look like an application getting its input from stdin :-)

Dan
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