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- From: sharpe@adodem.enet.dec.com
- Subject: Re: Help: rawrite.exe does not put EOF
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.073428.2817@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:02:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.224605.18276@iitmax.iit.edu>, thssbxv@iitmax.iit.edu (Boris Vaysburg) writes...
- >Why is it when I use rawrite.exe to copy some stuff from my dos partition to
- >the disk and then when I use dd I get 1.44Meg file independently of what the original size was. And of cource I can not
- >uncompress, tar it later.
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- What would an EOF look like on a floppy?
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- Thus you get back the whole floppy, with junk in the sectors that rawrite did
- not write there in the first place. Still, the tar/cpio/whatever file is OK!
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- Regards
- Richard Sharpe
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