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- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:59:44 GMT
- Subject: Re: Unix style dd for DOS...
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- krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh) writes:
-
- > 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:
- >
- > dd if=/dev/floppy of=disk_image bs=16k
- >
- > to save the image of a diskette to a file named disk_image. Thanks.
-
- If you are looking for clones of UNIX commands for MS-DOS, then I can
- strongly recommend the MKS Toolkit of Mortice Kern Systems. If you are
- used to work on a UNIX system, then you will "feel at home" on a MS-DOS
- system with the MKS Toolkit (ksh, vi and all/most other UNIX commands
- you can think of).
-
- For your particular purpose, copy the whole content of a diskette to a
- file (and back), you can, as Klaus Hartnegg said, use Klaus' program
- Disk-RW, or buy DR DOS 6.0 which includes many, many utilities,
- including a DISKCOPY (and DISKCOMP) which can do what you want.
-
- Frank Slootweg, UNIX support person and PC owner
-