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- From: newton@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Mark Newton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: dosread
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- Date: 19 Aug 92 23:23:22 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.183026.8428@udel.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug18.183026.8428@udel.edu> hilander@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Most things are better eaten than forgotten) writes:
- >i do a dosread -a foobar > /tmp/foobar
- >with no luck
- >i have tried to get a file off of the a drive.. no luck
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- dosread expects a block special device that it is supposed to read from.
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- So, to read something from drive A:, use a command line like this:
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- dosread -a /dev/fd0 foobar > /tmp/foobar
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- /dev/fd0 corresponds to the A: drive.
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- If you want to use dosread with a hard disk partition, then you'll have to
- make sure that a block special device exists which has major and minor
- device numbers corresponding to your DOS partition.
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- - mark
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