disk format question

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:12:02PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote:
>Greetings, Warren Young!
>
>>> The windows format.com
>
>> format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days.  That includes the 
>> DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME.  Under NT-derived 
>> versions of Windows, "format" is a built-in command in cmd.exe.
>
>You can easily check it with a simple batch file
>
>:x
>format /?
>goto :x
>
>and see that it actually calling format.com

I think we have exhausted this issue.  Obviously some people have found
a format program on their hard drives.  Since there is no Cygwin
component here, I'd appreciate it if everyone could all move on from
this subject.

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