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RaWrite 1.0
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Purpose
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Write a disk image file to a 360K floppy disk.


Equipment/Software Requirements
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PC/XT/AT with a floppy disk drive capable of reading and writing a 360K
diskette.

This program uses generic low-level BIOS diskette read/write functions. It
should be portable to nearly every PC in existance. PS/2's should be able
to run RaWrite but this has not been tested.


CAVEAT
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This program will write ANY disk file to a floppy, overwriting any previous
information that may have been present. If you wish to re-use a diskette
under MS-DOS thats been written to by RaWrite then the disk will need to be
reformatted; all MS-DOS specific information will have been erased.


How to Compile
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TCC rawrite.c

The source code is specific to Borland International's Turbo C 2.01 and has
been tested in all memory models.


Usage
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C> RAWRITE

And follow the prompts. All arguments are case-insensitive.

A sample run is shown below. The disk file being written, in this example,
is named DEMODISK and the destination - where the image is being written -
is the B: drive.

This program may be aborted at any time by typing ^C.


Sample Run
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C> RAWRITE
RaWrite - Write disk file to raw floppy diskette

Enter source file name: DEMODISK
Enter destination drive: B
Please insert a formatted 360K diskette into drive B: and press -ENTER- :
Writing image to drive B:


Errors
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RaWrite tries to ensure that the diskette is a 360K type by attempting a
read of sector 10. If this read succeeds then either the diskette isn't a
360K type or a non-standard formatting was used. An error message is output
and the program exits.

Errors such as write protect, door open, bad disk, bad sector, etc. cause a
program abort with an error code.


Author: Mark Becker ([email protected])


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Archive   : MINIX15D.ZIP
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