Re: reading an random block from a floppy

2000-02-18 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Feb 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff generated a > stream of 1s and 0s: > > I'd like to do the equivalent of > > > > dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k skip=1439 > > > > Maybe you can compile a perl code snippet into a static executable. > Hopefully e

Re: reading an random block from a floppy

2000-02-18 Thread dan
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > I'd like to do the equivalent of > > dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k skip=1439 > Maybe you can compile a perl code snippet into a static executable. Hopefully execautable will be small, though I doubt it. -- Win

reading an random block from a floppy

2000-02-18 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I'd like to do the equivalent of dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k skip=1439 without having to read through the 1439 blocks in question; that is, to not treat the floppy as a sequential device. This is running out of a floppy boot image (not Debian's, my own) so I don't have perl available, though I do hav