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[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 -- 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: or
WRITBOOT b:
where is the name of the bootblock file.
The program will then prompt for a floppy to be initialized.

EXAMPLE: WRITBOOT a: c:stuffootblok.bin will read the contents of 'c:stuffootblok.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/cgi-bin/h-search?key=writboot.zip

Source: OS2VOICE

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