RE: A little more information

["Talbot, David K" <dkt@bgs.ac.uk>]

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From: Chris Albertson [mailto:chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com]

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I am thinking somthing like this would read in a 16MB block and store
it to a file:

        dd if=/dev/lp0 of=myimage.raw bs=16M

I think "dd" has been ported to DOS.  To test I'd need a source of
parallel data.  Maybe I could use two computers but "dd" should 
work.

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Hi All
Yes. I dont remeber the exact command as it is a couple of years since I
last needed it, but I have in the past used (in DOS) a command very similar
to that Chris suggests to read upto 32MB of data from a malfunctioning
portable gamma spectrometer. I seem to remember that whatever I used sat and
waited for the data stram to start then read it in one go when it appeared.
In this case the transfer itself was initiated by giving a command on the
spectrometer system once the PC was waiting for data.
Regards
David