'dd' for Windoze (Was: cctalk Digest, Vol 89, Issue 21)

[Tom Manos]

I'd never heard of it until now. My main disk is reasonably full. Can I
install it on a data disk?

Tom
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Tom Manos, CTO
Concursive Corporation

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 6:16 PM Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com> wrote:

> I prefer WSL 2. It now allows X-windows and file management between the
> Linux distro and Windows (at least 11,I'm not sure about 10) is very
> intuitive.
>
> Ray
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> *Subject:* Re: 'dd' for Windoze (Was: cctalk Digest, Vol 89, Issue 21)
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> Or install Cygwin for a complete UNIX environment under Windoze. I don't
> use it all that much, but when you need it, it's fabulous.
>
> Tom
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> Tom Manos, CTO
> Concursive Corporation
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>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 5:46 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> >     > From: Rod Smallwood
> >
> >     > dd is a linux command.
> >
> > UNIX, actually. (V5, I think:
> >
> >   https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/source/s1/dd.c
> >
> > There no 'man'page for it in V4. Anyway...)
> >
> >
> >     > I only have windows PC's.
> >
> > There are Windoze versions. I've used this one:
> >
> >   http://www.chrysocome.net/dd
> >
> > with success (under XP; probably works under others, too).
> >
> >         Noel
> >
>