likovuori@cc.helsinki.fi (03/16/90)
In article <16693@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, henders@mist.cs.orst.edu (B. Scott Henderson) writes: > How does one access a hard disk partition table? First you could ask NU to read absolute sectors. When absolute sectors are read you can access head 0 track 0 sector 1 where the master boot sector and partition table resides. If you use Turbo C you could try function biosdisk(), the syntax is: int biosdisk(int cmd, int drive, int head, int track, int sector, int nsects, void *buffer); where cmd=2 is read from disk and cmd=1 is write to disk. drive is 0x00..0x7f for diskettes and 0x80... for fixed disks. Buffer must be large enough to hold nsects of data. You can find a good description of biosdisk (and all other TC functions) from The Waite Group's Turbo C Bible from Howard W. Sams & Co. Kari Likovuori Decnet: HYLK::LIKOVUORI University of Helsinki Bitnet: likovuori@finuh Computing Center Internet: likovuori@cc.helsinki.fi Finland
pack@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Robert Todd Pack) (11/28/90)
Subject:Help with Ghostscript 2.0 Organization: Cornell Theory Center References: <1990Nov19.212134.6012@polyof.poly.edu> <valley.659638331@gsbsun> <6661@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 22:52:12 GMT I finally got my hands on Ghostscript and got it running on my MS-DOS system. It will display ps files on my ega display perfectly and seems to work fine in every respect, except that the files it generates for my Deskjet printer don't work. Has anyone out there built Ghostscript so that it will work with a Deskjet printer? Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. Please E-mail all replies to pack@theory.tn.cornell.edu. -Thanks R.T.P.