Which format should I use to format external disk?

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 16:52 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 22:32 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:

> > $ dir -l tent.pdf
> > -rw-r----- 1 psmith psmith 95075 2006-12-31 21:25 tent.pdf
> > $ke 
> This is the first time I have seen someone use dir rather than ls in a
> *nix environment. This is not a criticism just a indication of surprise.
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dir of course works on linux but ls doesn't work on Windows unless
you've got SFU or cygwin installed

sometimes I just forget which I'm using but in case of OP, I suspect
that the windows commands are more familiar

Craig