(C) 1998 AROS - The Amiga Research OS


NAME
#include <proto/dos.h>

BOOL Format (devicename , volumename , dostype)

LOCATION
In DOSBase at offset 119

SYNOPSIS
STRPTR devicename
STRPTR volumename
ULONG dostype

FUNCTION
Initialise a filesystem for use by the system. This instructs a filesystem to write out the data that it uses to describe the device.

The device should already have been formatted.

INPUTS
devicename
Name of the device to format.
volumename
The name you wish the volume to be called.
dostype
The DOS type you wish on the disk.

RESULT
!= 0 if the format was successful, 0 otherwise.

EXAMPLE

SEE ALSO

NOTES

BUGS

INTERNALS

HISTORY
20.10.1998 hkiel
Amiga Research OS
24.12.1997 iaint
Added documentation
05.12.1997 srittau
Minor changes
27.01.1997 ldp
Polish
09.12.1996 aros
Added empty templates for all missing functions

Moved #include's into first column

24.10.1996 aros
Use the official AROS macros over the __AROS versions.
13.09.1996 digulla
Use IPTR
11.09.1996 digulla
A couple of new DOS functions from M. Fleischer