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From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: **** WANTED **** BINARY FILE COPY PROGRAM
Message-ID: <7100.26fcbb89@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 23 Sep 90 17:41:29 GMT
References: <59873@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <27257@usc.edu>
Organization: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada
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In article <27257@usc.edu>, kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
> In article <59873@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
>>MSDOS DEBUG will do this, albeit not "conveniently".
> 
> No, it won't.  What is needed is a way to copy a Minix boot disk, (or
> even an MS-DOS boot disk).  Debug can write just fine to a file, but I
> don't know of any way to make it write to a raw device (a floppy drive).

Not true.  The W(rite) command does just that.  The syntax:
     W[address [drive: record record]]
Example:
     WCS:100 1 37 2B
writes out the contents of memory to the disk in drive B:, beginning with the
address CS:100.  The data written out starts in the disk logical record number
37H and consists of 2BH records.  (Taken from my MS-DOS 3.20 manual.)

> Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6       kjh@usc.edu      ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh
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