Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 03:10:51 RST
From: ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru (-= ArkanoiD =-)
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To: wjackson AT powerup DOT com DOT au
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ls
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nuqneH,

In message <199710132249 DOT CAA19111 AT pool1 DOT convey DOT ru> "Wayne" writes:
>  I think it was DOS 3 or PCDOS 6, that was running under OS/2.
> Try this in a BASIC program:
> 
> open "\dev\dsk0$" for input as #1
> (I cannot remember the rest but you read from the disk)
> 
> Do not try thin on anything that is important too.  You will fill up every
> available piece of RAM before you know it.  You will have to play around
> with it a bit, as I think the device change from OS to OS.

I think it was an OS/2 trick. Bare DOS won't work this way.

> Another one is \dev\mem, now lets say you have 16Mb RAM then \dev\mem would
> have a size of 16,000,000 Bytes.  IF that was a file you would lose 16Mb of
> space.

I have a dd somewhere that works with /dev/mem and /dev/kmem but i believe
those devices are emulated by program itself..

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