From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 18 22:40:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA07752 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA07739 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA05957 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:30:23 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA23308; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:14:39 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970618211439.NU46112@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:14:39 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Opus diskettes References: <199706181513.IAA02167@seagull.rtd.com> <199706181718.KAA21035@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de-noreply (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706181718.KAA21035@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jun 18, 1997 10:18:37 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > dd if=/dev/floppy skip=4k conv=swab of=file_without_VTOC ^^^^^^^ This would IMHO skip 4k blocks = 2048 * 512 bytes. Is this what you want? :-) (The default bs is 512 bytes, and skip is measured in bs.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)