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- From: grant@Manticore.COM (Grant J. Munsey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Need to view sectors on floppy disk
- Message-ID: <354@gouche.UUCP>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 16:04:45 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.171057.13733@tds.com>
- Sender: grant@gouche.UUCP
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- In article <1992Nov4.171057.13733@tds.com> hoskins@tds.com (Lianne Hoskins)
- writes:
- >
- > For security reasons we need to be able to view all of the contents on a
- > NeXT formatted floppy disk.
- > ......
-
- I assume you are working on a NeXTStation. You need to access the floppy
- in "raw" mode. Use the device /dev/rfd0b. If you just want to look at the
- bytes then the 'od' program can be used. See man pages 'man4/fd.4' and
- man1/od.1 for more info. Cheers,
- ----
- Grant Munsey, Mainticore, Inc. (408)252-1135
- grant@Manticore.COM, uunet!ub-gate!gouche!grant NeXTMail ok.
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