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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:56:46 +0000
From: J P Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: Re: disk devices (was ls, killing disk 0)
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-= ArkanoiD =- wrote:
> 
> nuqneH,
> 
> > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:32:40 +1300
> > From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
> > Subject: Re: disk devices (was ls, killing disk 0)
> > To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> 
> [dd]
> 
> > > > This character file, is only usable in OS/2.

Oh.  It didn't work in OS/2 either....

> 
> You _can_ destroy your CMOS contents by writing to /dev/clock$
> (i have that done once: i was curious what happens if you write to 
> /dev/clock$ and that was _my_ problem when that happened,not an OS
> "misfeature") ,so /dev/clock$ is evil?

What OS did you do this with??

> 
> > and most of the
> > benfits are available via IO controil reads/writes that is already a
> > feature of DOS.  A read-only subset of the OS/2 notion might be
> > something though.
> 
> r/w. I want to be able to write images,not only to read them.
> I copied hdd's once: dd if=/dev/hda0 of=/dev/hdb0 ;)

Evil!  Eeevil!


(Wonders how to put this tactfully)

Umm,  I doubt that you will see this feature, unless Matthias puts it
in his kernel.

Most people will not want to do this, ever, and it will take up space
in the Kernel.  However, the new config.sys operator I mentioned is a
considered possibility.

Does anyone have a suggestion about that before it is implemented
or shelved?  (Ie, do you want it, what character should it be?)

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