Quick Format  -  Fast disc wiper

by Matt Browne

This program requires RISC OS 3

Quick Format is a handy utility to format (or to be more precise, to wipe) discs in a matter of seconds. The only requirement is that discs must have been properly
formatted at least once before. Quick Format will recognise most disc formats including high-density formats, DOS discs and older D-format ADFS discs.

Quick Format will place as many icons on the icon bar
as you have floppy drives attached to your machine; i.e. if you have two
drives it will place Form:0 and Form:1 on the icon bar, though there is an option to reduce the icons to just one if your icon bar is getting too cluttered.

Formatting is simply a matter of clicking on the Format icon and waiting a few seconds. Quick Format works by ascertaining the current format of the disc and then wiping it by re-writing the catalogue information.

Quick Format is written in 100% ARM Assembler for speed and efficiency. It
uses DoggySofts WimpExtension module.

A more detailed description together with instructions on using the program can be found in the !Help file inside the application.

 Copyright RISC User, 1995
