Re: MacOS floppy creation
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.
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. :-)
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Craig S. Cottingham
cottingham@mac.com
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