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- From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
- Subject: Re: Unix style dd for DOS...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.223020.4077@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
- Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
- References: <1k1c1gINN765@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:30:20 GMT
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- krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh) writes:
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- >I am looking for a Unix style "dd" program for DOS which would allow
- >me to read and write to/from disk drives like you can on a Unix
- >machine. For example:
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- > dd if=/dev/floppy of=disk_image bs=16k
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- >to save the image of a diskette to a file named disk_image. Thanks.
-
- There are programs to do this but they don't have the name dd.
- Example: dskrw237.zip in the dskutl directory of simtel.
- This is one of the fastest that I am aware of.
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