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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hippo.ru.ac.za!ee.und.ac.za!tplinfm 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 Lines: 40 Message-ID: <2jdook$f93@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> References: <jmonroyCKwnsq.5vI@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.ee.und.ac.za 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