On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Neil A. Carson wrote:

> Oli wrote:
> > 
> > Is there such a thing as a unix disk editor? preferably for a hard drive.
> > 
> > erm, this may actually be a damn silly question, but I'm very new to the
> > whole unix thing.
> 
> Probably. Why would you want one though? You can get a discs directly
> via the raw devices (/dev/rwd... for IDE of /dev/rsd... for SCSI) and
> use commands like dd to read/write chunks... Essentially the device
> files allow whole discs to be treated just like they were files.
> 
> 
> 

Its a small matter of trying to copy somthing I dont have permission for.
Cheers for the help.  I probably dont have the correct permission on the
devices anyway.


O.