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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: **** WANTED **** BINARY FILE COPY PROGRAM
Message-ID: <601@demott.COM>
Date: 23 Sep 90 23:21:53 GMT
References: <27257@usc.edu>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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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).
>What is needed is a clone of the Unix dd program.
>Example:	`dd if=file of=a: bs=1k count=360`



    The debug commands L and W will load and write sectors.

L (address) (drive number 0 = A) (starting sector #) (# of sectors)

e.g.

L cs:100 1 0 1

will load the boot block.

W cs:100 1 0 1

will write the boot block


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