Re: Help: Dos 5.0 Mirror command

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From: Frank Slootweg CRC
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:22

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jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:

> If you formatted with /u or another version of MS-DOS, unformat will
> search the disk for any mirror files (these are identified by their
> data format).

  As I said I do not use MS-DOS 5.0, but similar tools from PC Tools
6.0, but I think the above statement is unclear/misleading :

- For a diskette there will be no mirror file to search for. After all
  /U does an unconditional complete format (erases each sector), or does
  the MS-DOS option /U work differently than the PC Tools option
  /DESTROY?

- For a hard-disk I think /U is ignored.

Frank Slootweg

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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:22:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Help: Dos 5.0 Mirror command
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