steve steffler wrote in a message to Paul Wankadia:
 DC> It is possible to damage hardware through software, it'd (usually)
 DC> just take a really stupid user for it to actually work :-)
 PW> Perhaps you can tell me what FORMAT.EXE does, David.
 ss> No such program exists.  I have a FORMAT.COM, but no .EXE... 
Excuse me? I've seen several FORMAT.EXE's around. It *definetly* exists.
 ss> And by the way, the FORMAT command doesn't damage hardware.
Depends on the format. If you can get a low-level format done to an IDE drive 
then it's about as usefull as a rock when it comes to data storage.
Dave
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