rawwritewin                                             Thu 4/27/2006 3:14 pm

rawwritewin: a Windows tool for reading/writing diskette images.

Original author: John Newbigin.

NOTES

This is a dying art, but at one time it was commonplace to boot Linux from a
diskette, and there were rawwrite and rawread utilities to prepare diskette
images, i.e. from CDROM or the web, to do this. These things stopped working
in XP and even some versions of Windows 98, and Newbigin's rawwritewin is his
thoughtful GUI tool to still do it.

For the program to work in Windows 98, Newbigin concocted a 16-bit diskio.dll
and called it from his 32-bit program, which is incredibly clever. Somewhere
along the line he turned away from w98 and some kind of peculiarity crept-in,
so that the program would only run properly if diskio.dll were in the
*current* directory, as opposed to the program's directory, and I hacked that
stuff out.

raww_???_src.zip:       contains source for rawwritewin. unzip it with the
"-d" argument to preserve directory structure.

raww_???_exec.zip:      contains executable; just unzip it somewhere and run.

???:three-letter version.

j.g. owen * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
web:   http://owenlabs.home.att.net/
email: owen_bda4@yahoo.com
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