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From: dsilvia@blunt.net.com (Dave Silvia)
Subject: Re: raw write
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1993 20:07:01 GMT
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In article <1993Apr4.165518.23059@wuecl.wustl.edu> ppc2@cec1.wustl.edu (Peter P Chiu) writes:
>
>i would like to create an image file of a disk that could be raw-written to
>another disk, how could i do that?  is that any program out there that let
>me create a raw-write file out of a disk?
> 

on a unix machine:

	dd if=/dev/rfd[0|1]a of=image_of_disk.fs

reverse 'if=' and 'of=' to make a disk of the file.

Dave S.