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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Opus diskettes
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 10:04:33 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <19970618211439.NU46112@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 18, 97 09:14:39 pm
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> 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.)

Sorry; the man page for dd is ambiguous:

  Where sizes are specified, a decimal number of bytes is expected.  If the
  number ends with a ``b'', ``k'', ``m'' or ``w'', the number is multiplied
  by 512, 1024 (1K), 1048576 (1M) or the number of bytes in an integer, re-
  spectively. 

and it has been a long time since I've had to do this for an OPUS (or
3B1 or 3B2) disk.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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