Re: newbie comments

greg scott <elisp@comcast.net> wrote:
> http://www.forthos.org/setup.html includes
> dd bs=4k iseek=1 oseek=1 if=ForthOS1 of=/dev/ad0s2
>
> on slackware linux, dd (coreutils) 5.0 syntax:
> dd bs=4k skip=1 seek=1 if=ForthOS1 of=/dev/ad0s2
> ie.
> iseek is skip
> oseek is seek

Thanks... this is the old fashioned syntax, which FreeBSD had deprecated
because it's so error prone to remember which goes with in and which goes
with out. But if Linux doesn't support this, I'll certainly have to
update the docs.
 
Andy
Received on 30 Dec 2004 20:01:14 GMT