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From: Kevin Routh
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:37

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Hi,

I am looking for a Unix style "dd" program for DOS which would allow
me to read and write to/from disk drives like you can on  a Unix
machine.  For example:

	dd if=/dev/floppy of=disk_image bs=16k

to save the image of a diskette to a file named disk_image.  Thanks.

Kevin

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Subject: Unix style dd for DOS...
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