Need to view sectors on floppy disk

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2 total messages Started by Lianne Hoskins Wed, 04 Nov 1992 17:10

#142

Author: Lianne Hoskins
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 17:10

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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?

--Lianne

`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'
Lianne Hoskins
Trident Data Systems
hoskins@tds.com

Re: Need to view sectors on floppy disk

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Author: 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,
----
Grant Munsey, Mainticore, Inc. (408)252-1135
grant@Manticore.COM,  uunet!ub-gate!gouche!grant   NeXTMail ok.

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