On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:04:53AM -0500, Craig S. Cottingham wrote: > On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 09:00 , Ethan Benson wrote: > > > i wonder what level of hardware access you can get from macperl under > > macos... might be a quick way to implement a simple dd without having > > to learn about the crufty macos APIs. > > Not low-level enough, is my gut feeling. I don't recall seeing > any modules for MacPerl for reading and writing the floppy drive > directly. There's the usual file copy stuff, but that's at the > volume level, not the disk level. Besides, as you intimated > before, MacPerl is an awful lot of software to be installing for > such a little purpose.
agreed. > I'm toying with the idea of volunteering to write dd/rawrite for > Mac OS. I still have most of the Inside Macintosh manuals, and > might have one last hurrah before disposing of them or giving > them away. The biggest unknown is just how much of my spare time > I'm willing to give up. :-) well like i said, it need not be pretty or fancy, just needs to put up a open dialog, or ask the user to type a path, and take whatever they gave you and burn to to the floppy disk (well maybe a check to see that the file is 1.44MB..). i wouldn't think that would be too complicated but you never know.. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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