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From: lewis@cortex.med.jhu.edu (Robert Lewis)
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Subject: Block I/O on 8in Floppies
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Date: 20 Feb 91 14:55:07 GMT
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  I am looking for a way to read 8" floppies on an IBM PC.  Unfortunately,
the format of the disk is not known.  I would like to be able to read the
disk block by block (not at the device level though) without paying any
special attention to the directory information.  Please e-mail me if you
know of any hardware or software that can be used to do this.  C library 
routines would be ideal.  Thanks in advance.



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Rob Lewis				lewis@cortex.med.jhu.edu
Pearlson Neuroimaging Lab		(301) 955-8492
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine