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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:08:55 -0500
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From: Gregory Walker <gwalker AT jump DOT net>
Subject: Re: dd under CygWin
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At 12:40 PM 8/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
 >> >95/98: No chance since no raw device support.
 >>And if I launch from a DOS Boot Disk?
 >
 >No difference. 9x has no support for what dd does.

For what it is worth, MSDOS has the rawwrite.exe command
which is similar to dd. For example, you can copy a Linux
boot image to a floppy with it. I found it in the
"Crash Recovery Kit for Linux" at <http://crashrecovery.org/>

Cheers,
Gregory Walker           gwalker AT jump DOT net



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