[ros-kernel] Re: Proposed new (trivial) device driver

[Phillip S. <ps...@cf...>]

At 08:57 PM 11/6/2001 +0100, you wrote:

>I can see the relevance of this in a unix like environment, because
>of the shell scripting abillities, but not in a Windows environment,
>where script files don't access device objects directly. What use
>does it have in ReactOS. A simple memset() would be very much
>easier to do and also faster.

Of course scripts access device objects directly.  dd and many other useful 
command line utilities have been ported to mingw32 that are quite handy.  I 
use dd to read and write image files to/from floppies all the time.  Right 
now I'm using it to get a bootable reactos disk set up.  Also what if you 
just want to write a file to disk to benchmark its throughput?  Or just to 
fill your disk with zeroes to wipe out any deleted data?  Copy zero 
test.bin would be quite handy.


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