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[colorforth] Obtaining binary block images from boot disk


Are there any colorforth users who do not have access to Linux?

The biggest pain for me is having to deal with DOS and MASM.

I don't want to fork the code. Can we switch to NASM on Linux?

If you don't have Linux then I can make available a self-contained 
bootable CD-ROM that has X11 and NASM. The CD runs entirely from
RAM but you can store files on the harddrive, floppy or network.

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:34:24PM +0200, Bernd Beuster wrote:
> The file handling for writing blocks to a FAT-formatted floppy is to
> cumbersome.  For Linux users I wrote a script (bcp - block copy) that
> copies from the bootable floppy the needed blocks to binary images.
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #! /bin/bash
> # bcp: copy blocks from bootable colorForth floppy to file
> #
> if [ $# != 3 ]; then
>   echo "Usage: ${0##*/} block count filename"
>   exit 1
> fi
> 
> dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 skip=$1 count=$2 of=$3
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> -- 
> Bernd
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