Archiving floppies?

From: salo <salo_at_Xtrmntr.org>
Date: Sat Sep 22 18:17:29 2001

On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 02:51:38PM -0700, Gordon Zaft wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations on software (preferably free) for
> archiving old DOS floppies? What I'd like to do is to be able to make disk
> images of all (okay, maybe just 'many') of the old DOS floppies I have so
> that if they disks get trashed or the bits fall off I can remake 'em. I'm
> assuming I'd probably be making these archives from a Windoze box although
> DOS or even FreeBSD or Linux is a possibility.

rawrite / rawread

e.g. downloadable from:

  http://hubble.physik.uni-konstanz.de/jkrueger/windows/rawrite.exe
  http://hubble.physik.uni-konstanz.de/jkrueger/windows/rawread.exe

or dd in any generic *nix.

regards,

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