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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Boot Disk!
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 21:13:31 GMT
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- In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960312144618.69354B-100000@red.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu "The Amorphous Mass" writes:
-
- >On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Larry Weiss wrote:
- >
- >> Lawrence Kirby wrote:
- >> > 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.
- >> >
- >> 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?
- >
- > No, but the actual code that changes the boot disk won't be C code.
- >
- >> Maybe I'm reading "can't do this in C" with a different slant than you
- >> intended?
- >
- > It means "can't do this within the C language"
-
- Yes, that is what I meant. However Larry has a point and I probably
- should have stated it more clearly. You can't do this using constructs that
- are well defined by the C language itself.
-
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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