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From: barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: YAPBOOT
Date: 10 Feb 1994 18:52:36 +0200
Organization: Elec. Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <jmonroyCKwnsq.5vI@netcom.com>,
jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:
> At the request of persons to which communication is
> a part of life, the program "yapboot" (herein transfered
> in binary format as yapboo10.zip.b) is available on
> freebsd.cdrom.com: ~ftp/incoming.

YAPBOOT's original home is
ftp://ftp.ee.und.ac.za/pub/msdos/yapboo10.zip, but the net links to
South Africa are slow.  (Expect the "10" to change if I ever release a
new version.)

The package includes a partition table editor written in C, and a master
partition table boot program in assembly language.  I used Borland C and
TASM under MS-DOS for development (sorry).

> The program is compressed with the MSDOS compression
> program "pkzip".  This method may not be compatible
> with "gzip".   

pkzip is incompatible with gzip.  I can easily make a .tar.gz version
available if folk would find that useful.

> The program althought at this point in time, not
> successful with 386bsd 0.1 (w/pk) is a very useful
> program.

I use it myself with NetBSD, with no problems.  I would appreciate it if
you could send me email about the problems you have with yapboot, and I
will try to fix it.

> An even thought the coding style is a bit odd

Yes, it is a bit odd.  This is dictated, to a large degree, by my
desire to fit as much functionality as possible into the 512-byte
master boot sector.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
RFC822: barrett@ee.und.ac.za