[colorforth] Obtaining binary block images from boot disk

[Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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