FORMAT.COM 	66944	01-21-93	8:40a

This is the latest BETA version of FORMAT.COM for IBM OS/2 2.0. The code 
comes directly from IBMand is intended to fix the following problems :

	1) Unable to format large partitions with the FAT format. The current 
        implementation tries to format 5% of the drive and if this fails, the 
        drive is formatted one sector at a time. The most common reason for 
        the format to fail is that the drive takes longer than expected to
	complete the command. This new beta version only does 1% of the drive 
        at a time and is much more intelligent about recovering.

If you have had problems formatting your drive because it takes an incredibly
long time to finish (i.e. over 5 hours), give this new version of FORMAT a 
try. If you have any problems with it please leave a message for SIGOS2 
in the OS/2 2.0 SIG that explains where your problem occurs.

