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...

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:...

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...

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...

(command), a file type identification utility File conversion Future proofing Graphics file format summary Image file formats List of archive formats List...

This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors used to create archive files. Archive formats are used for backups, mobility, and archiving...

used by undelete. The command is available in MS-DOS versions 5 and later. MS-DOS version 5 introduced the quick format option (Format /Q) which removes the...

use the AMF encoding format. Command messages on the other hand, whether AMF0 (Message Type of 0x14) or AMF3 (0x11), use the format and have the general...

Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images...

IEEE defined a new pax format which is basically tar with additional extended attributes. The format is not supported by pax commands in most Linux distributions...

(format detection)". GitHub. Retrieved 10 February 2020. "ar". GNU Binary Utilities. The Wikibook Guide to Unix has a page on the topic of: Commands ar: create...

and because the plain TeX formatting commands are elementary, it provides authors with ready-made commands for formatting and layout requirements such...

A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines. Command-line interfaces...

shar command is not specified by the Single Unix Specification, so it is not formally a component of Unix, but a legacy utility. While the shar format has...

Several programs can unpack the file format. RARLAB distributes the C++ source code and binaries for a command-line unrar program. The license permits...

and new text presented immediately adjacent. Unified format is usually invoked using the "-u" command-line option. This output is often used as input to...

arbitrary locations using the %n format token, which commands printf() and similar functions to write the number of bytes formatted to an address stored on the...

computing, the Executable and Linkable Format (ELF, formerly named Extensible Linking Format) is a common standard file format for executable files, object code...

Cabinet (or CAB) is an archive-file format for Microsoft Windows that supports lossless data compression and embedded digital certificates used for maintaining...

This is normally done before sending a mode set command. Systems Network Architecture defined one format for the information field, in which the most significant...

commands to help navigate the file system. The command is usually implemented as an internal command in the command-line interpreter (shell). On some systems...

ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed...

high-level DOS FORMAT command... Most vendors supplied modified high-level format programs that permitted partitions of up to 32MB to be formatted properly...

of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format's name or...

Rich Text file called TXT.rtf that contains Rich Text formatting commands, as well as commands for including images or other attachments contained within...

Mannesmann Tally Printer Language PCL, Printer Command Language (Hewlett-Packard) PDF, Portable Document Format (Adobe Systems), now ISO 32000 PostScript (Adobe...