formating a diskette from w/n a program?

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From: James Hartley
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 08:21

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I would appreciate any information on detecting whether a diskette is
formatted and and what code is necessary to format the diskette if it
is found to be unformatted.  I would rather code these routines than
resort to MS-DOS system calls.  Thanks.

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