This is a program to copy floppy disks
It makes use of the dd command and make an exact floppy copy,
including the boot-sector.
See "man dd" and "info dd" for details and information of the dd command.
diskcopy [-h | --help] diskcopy [-v | --version] diskcopy n
Options:
-h, --help Display this help message and exit. -v, --version Display version and exit.
Constant FLOPPY_DRIVE in line 67 - 69 is your floppy device. Change this if needed. Default is /dev/fd0.
diskcopy # Simple dos style diskcopy.
diskcopy -h # Prints out the help screen.
diskcopy -v # Prints out the version number.
diskcopy 3 # Makes 3 copies of the same floppy.
Installing the diskcopy script into the /usr/local/bin
and a man entry into /usr/man/man1
can be performed with the following series of commands:
# tar -xvfz diskcopy-0.7.tar.gz
# cd diskcopy-0.7
# su
# [root password]
# make install
or manually copy
diskcopy to /usr/local/bin
diskcopy.1 to /usr/man/man1
None that I know.
Copyright 2000 - 2001, Jogeir Lindseth <jog-l@frisurf.no>
This software is part of the LinuxCommand.org project, a site for Linux education and advocacy devoted to helping users of legacy operating systems migrate into the future.
You may contact the LinuxCommand.org project at:
http://www.linuxcommand.org
This software has been made possible with tips from newsgroup no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse and the linuxcommand.org.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
A copy of GNU General Public License, file Gnu_Public_License, is included in this distribution.
$Id: diskcopy.README,v 1.1.1.1 2001/03/24 13:50:36 bshotts Exp $ diskcopy.README