Unix style dd for DOS...

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3 total messages Started by Kevin Routh Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:37

#3230

Author: 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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Re: Unix style dd for DOS...

#3231

Author: 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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Re: Unix style dd for DOS...

#3269

Author: Frank Slootweg CRC
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:59

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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.

  If you are looking for clones of UNIX commands for MS-DOS, then I can
strongly recommend the MKS Toolkit of Mortice Kern Systems. If you are
used to work on a UNIX system, then you will "feel at home" on a MS-DOS
system with the MKS Toolkit (ksh, vi and all/most other UNIX commands
you can think of).

  For your particular purpose, copy the whole content of a diskette to a
file (and back), you can, as Klaus Hartnegg said, use Klaus' program
Disk-RW, or buy DR DOS 6.0 which includes many, many utilities,
including a DISKCOPY (and DISKCOMP) which can do what you want.

Frank Slootweg, UNIX support person and PC owner

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