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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix_read/minix_write? Help
Message-ID: <3197@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 9 Sep 89 20:50:00 GMT
References: <2280003@hpctdlb.HP.COM>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <2280003@hpctdlb.HP.COM> jwf@hpctdlb.HP.COM (John Freeborg) writes:
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>Has anyone ever developed DOS programs which could read/write Minix formatted
>disks?  Sort of like the opposite of dos-read, dos-write?  Any helpful
>information would be greatly appreciated.

The standard MINIX program readfs will do exactly that.  It reads a MINIX
file system, and creates an image of it on some disk.  If you compile readfs
using any MS-DOS compiler, you can then run it on MS-DOS.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)