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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: RAWRITE <--> RA(W)READ ???
Date: 20 Dec 1995 15:47:59 GMT
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Peter Joosten <peterj@oosten.IAEhv.nl> writes:

> On the FreeBSD Walnut Creek CDROM there are some DOS-utils. One of
> them is RAWRITE. Now I'am looking for some DOS-utility, that can do
> the reverse operation: make a disk-image file of a floppy. Or even
> better, some DOS-utility equivalent to the UNIX dd, that will work
> in both directions.

The source for rawrite is there, just modify it to do the reverse.
Shouldn't be much work.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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