VMS Help EXCHANGE, INITIALIZE  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Formats and writes a label on a foreign mass storage volume.
    For directory-structured devices, the device directory is also
    initialized.

    Format

      INITIALIZE  device-name [volume-label]

      INITIALIZE/CREATE  file-name [volume-label]

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