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QINIT Apple Programmer's Workshop Manual QINIT
NAME
qinit - quick disk initialization
SYNOPSIS
qinit [-p][-f][-m] .device | /volume [/volume]
DESCRIPTION
QInit formats disks using the standard GS/OS disk formatting routines.
It can speed up the formatting of a disk that has already been
formatted by simply erasing it with new volume information. Formatting
takes nearly a minute, while erasing takes about a second or two since
it does not involve writing zeros to every byte on the disk.
QInit requires at least one argument, a device or volume name to
specify the disk that is to be formatted. An optional volume name can
be specified which will become the new name of the formatted disk. If
left out, /Blank is chosen, unless the disk is readable, in which case
the existing name is retained.
The following options are recognized:
-p Progress reporting.
-f Forces complete formatting for disks previously initialized.
-m Following the standard GS/OS formatting, blocks are written
to the disk to create a Macintosh HFS diskette. At present,
only a Macintosh or special utilities (like A2FX) can read
disks formatted with this option. The disk is always named
"Untitled" regardless of any optional volume name given.
Examples:
qinit .d2 - format .d2 as "/Blank" (or existing name)
qinit /ram5 - erase /ram5
qinit -f .d1 /foo - format .d2 as "/foo"
qinit -pm .d2 - erase .d2 as an "Untitled" Macintosh disk
AUTHOR
Morgan Davis. Public domain. This program can be used from any
GS/OS launching system (Finder, ProSel, etc) by changing its
file type to S16.
Printed 10/28/90 28 October 1990 1