[Coco] FDRAWREAD

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Sat Sep 7 10:49:02 EDT 2013


On Saturday 07 September 2013 10:34:35 Bill did opine:

> I meant the fdrawread driver for VCC. I already have the fdrawcmd
> installed, but don't know exactly what to do with it.
> 
> Thanks

While pleading that its incomplete, it does have a relative well written 
man page. According to it, it can do raw reads and writes, possibly in 
situations where dd can't.  That said, I can't figure it out either.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> > bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Johann Klasek
> > Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 9:26 AM
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] FDRAWREAD
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:28:47PM -0400, Bill wrote:
> > > Can anyone give me a link to this program?
> > 
> > Do mean FDRAWREAD driver for VCC (as mentioned in some articles on the
> > net) or something like fdrawcmd from the fdutils package (knowing
> > from Linux)?
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