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From: Klaus Hartnegg
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:30

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krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh) writes:

>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.

There are programs to do this but they don't have the name dd.
Example: dskrw237.zip in the dskutl directory of simtel.
This is one of the fastest that I am aware of.
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