In computing, format is a command-line utility that carries out disk formatting. It is a component of various operating systems, including 86-DOS, MS-DOS...

the OS. format command: Under MS-DOS, PC DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows, disk formatting can be performed by the format command. The format program usually...

destroying any existing contents FORMAT (command), a command-line utility to format disks in many computer operating systems Format (Common Lisp), a programming...

and became a format supported by most modern file archiving systems. The tar command was abandoned in POSIX.1-2001 in favor of pax command, which was to...

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other calculations to build formatting descriptions. In this example, the format is specified on line 601, and the PRINT command refers to it by line number:...

software portal Comparison of file archivers Free file format List of archive formats List of Unix commands Libarc Brotli Jim Meyering (19 August 2023). "gzip-1...

returns a check condition in response to a command, the initiator usually then issues a SCSI Request Sense command. This process is part of a SCSI protocol...

a user field inserts itself before the command. It is generally set to 'root'. In some uses of the cron format there is also a seconds field at the beginning...

This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors used to create archive files. ^1 While the original tar format uses the ASCII character...