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Re: Need to view sectors on floppy disk

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From: Grant J. Munsey
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 16:04
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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.
> ......

I assume you are working on a NeXTStation. You need to access the floppy
in "raw" mode. Use the device /dev/rfd0b. If you just want to look at the
bytes then the 'od' program can be used. See man pages 'man4/fd.4' and
man1/od.1 for more info. Cheers,
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Grant Munsey, Mainticore, Inc. (408)252-1135
grant@Manticore.COM,  uunet!ub-gate!gouche!grant   NeXTMail ok.
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Subject: Re: Need to view sectors on floppy disk
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