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- From: Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Boot Disk!
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:41:21 -0600
- Organization: crystalball.com
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- Lawrence Kirby wrote:
- >
- > In article <3144FC6B.179B@plink.cityu.edu.hk>
- > 95471004@plink.cityu.edu.hk "Jonathan Chiu Chi Hang" writes:
- > > Does anyone know how to write a program in C to make a disk that
- > >redirect the boot drive from drive A to drive B when boot time. What is
- > >the algoithm? Or provide the source code for reference.
- >
- > You can't do this in C since the C language has no concept of boot disks.
- > Try a newsgroup related to your particular OS to determine what facilities
- > that OS may have to support this. The answer will be highly OS specific.
- >
-
- Say again? I agree that the design of a program to perform platform
- specific operations is best aided from expertise focused on that platform,
- but to say that eventually, an implementation of such a program cannot
- utilize the C programming language?
-
- Maybe I'm reading "can't do this in C" with a different slant than you
- intended?
-