Virtual disk make a nice test device

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From: Jon Pinkley Westinghouse 216 486...
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 09:24

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>I uncovered this accidentally when playing on my uV2K cluster to which
>I recently attached a RX23-AA.  At the time I thought it a bit useless
>since the 3.5 floppy can hold very little data (~2500 blocks);  however,
>it's a great commodity when you need to play with code that is modifying
>file and/or volume data.  I highly recommend to anyone working on such
>code to get themselves a floppy for their system.
>
>BJS-

Glenn Everhart's VDDRIVER allows you to create "disk" devices with contiguous
files.  Virtual disks come in handy for all sorts of testing.  They make good
test devices for new versions of BACKUP, VERIFY etc.

Glenn, what is the latest and greatest version of VDDRIVER and ASNVD?

Jon Pinkley jon@clevax.wec.com  ...uunet!tron!clevax!jon (216)486-8300 x1335

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