Date:  Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:57:30 -0500
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] Write a bootblock on a floppy

From: tamatgmx.de (Timo Maier) 

[Moderator note: Before anyone writes asking why they would need this, I
have no idea.  I'm just passing along something which may or may not be of
interest to people who would know what to do with it if they had a use for
it. :-) ]

WRITBOOT -- Yet another Bootblock writer
Peter Flass <Peter_FlassatYahoo.com> -- Jan 2002

WRITBOOT is a small program to write a floppy bootblock from a binary
file. The file should be exactly 512 bytes long, and may be generated e.g.
using  the '-f bin' output option of NASM.  The contents of the file are
checked  only for length = 512 bytes and signature in bytes 510 and 511 is 
\x55 \xAA.

USAGE: WRITBOOT runs in an OS/2 windowed of fullscreen session:
       WRITBOOT a: <filename> or
       WRITBOOT b: <filename>
where <filename> is the name of the bootblock file.  
The program will then prompt for a floppy to be initialized.

EXAMPLE: WRITBOOT a: c:\stuff\bootblok.bin  will read the contents of
'c:\stuff\bootblok.bin" and write it to the floppy in drive a.  The
compiled version of WRITBOOT requires the EMX runtime libraries, but
presumably could be recompiled using other C compilers.

RECOMPILING: WRITBOOT can be compiled using EMX by the command: GCC -o
writboot.exe writboot.c 

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/writboot.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=writboot.zip

                           

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