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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Fast reading of floppies...
Summary: slower than frozen mercury
Message-ID: <14076@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 90 10:29:14 GMT
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Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
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Organization: Network Info Systems Ctr., SRI Intl., Menlo Park, CA.
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How do those fast disk copiers work?   

I mean, I go to read $xx number of blocks from a floppy, and it takes
its own sweet time about it. 

What I'm really asking for here, is a slice of code that will accept a
starting block #, and an ending block #, and go fetch. Fast.

--Chan
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    Chan Wilson -- cwilson@nisc.sri.com <!> I don't speak for SRI.
Janitor/Architect of comp.binaries.apple2 archive on wuarchive.wustl.edu
  "And now, the penguin on top of the television set will explode."
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