Re: newbie comments

Andy Valencia wrote:
> 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.

I second that.. I was installing ForthOS today, and with my gentoo boot
disk i had to use skip/seek instead of iseek and oseek.
Received on Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:56:10 +1000