Thanks, Eric. That's the kind of concept I had in mind.
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From: "Eric Auer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] DOS laptop battery run-time test?
>
> Hi!
>
>> free methods like "pop in a DVD and sit in fron
Hi!
> MessageFor what it is worth, I use HP's Disk format tool for my CF card.
> This utility is no longer supported but you can easily find it on the web
> (be cautious).
>
> http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm
> http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64963-order,4-page,1-c,peripherals/de
Hi!
> As long as I remember on MS-DOS format /s is the
> same as use FORMAT and later use SYS.
>
> Transfer boot sector, hidden files and command.com
Actually when you use FreeDOS FORMAT /S it will
just do a normal format and then call your copy
of SYS. So it even requires the presence of SYS
in
Hi!
> free methods like "pop in a DVD and sit in front of
> the laptop with a timer until the machine shuts down."
>
> But this seems like a good job for DOS, which won't complain if power
> termination shuts the machine off instead of a soft shutdown process.
Hmmm how about the following:
Let
