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- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: GNU file utilities (and groff)
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:56:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.105635.17644@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- I have uploaded a new version of the GNU file utilities (now 3.3) for
- OS/2 2.0 to ftp-os2 (currently gnufutil.zip in pub/downloads). It fixes
- all bugs that have been reported to me.
-
- In addition the dd program has the direct floppy access stuff back in.
- Change: the drives are now accessed via their real names A:, B: and so
- on instead of 0:, 1: etc. as it was in the 16-bit version. I have also
- added an echo=on option to dd to let you monitor the progress of the
- program, such as when accessing floppies.
-
- I did also want to add access to physical hard disks (like fdisk does)
- using names of $1: and $2: and so on, but I can't get this working, is
- someone fixes this (source code is included), please send me the fix.
-
- The logical disk (and, if it worked, the physical HD) access in dd
- allows to read single sectors or tracks etc. out of media, edit it with
- a binary editor, such as BEAV and write it back (try this on floppies
- first before doing anything on HD's! And, all on your own risk).
-
- I have also uploaded an OS/2 2.0 version of GNU groff 1.05 to ftp-os2,
- in groffexe.zip and groffsrc.zip, for those who care about a troff
- clone.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */
-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
-
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