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In article <1992Nov4.171057.13733@tds.com> hoskins@tds.com (Lianne Hoskins)  
writes:
> 
> For security reasons we need to be able to view all of the contents on a  
> NeXT formatted floppy disk.
> 
> Essentially we want to go sector by sector and be able to view the data in  
> hex and/or ascii form.  This is similar to what you might see in Norton or  
> PCTools packages for a PC.
> 
> Does such an App exist?  Is there a fairly easy way to do this from the  
> command line?

From the command line, try
	od -c </dev/rfd0a
to view as ascii, or
	od -x </dev/rfd0a
to view as hex, or
	od -s[n] </dev/rfd0a
to view only null-terminated strings with at least n charactes.

Since I don't have a floppy drive I don't know 100% if /dev/rfd0a is
the right device, but I'm pretty sure.

The whole thing might be faster if you read with dd instead, thus
	dd if=/dev/rfd0a bs=18K of=- | od -c
etc.

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