Reading Files
JB
sundown at pacifier.com
Wed Oct 8 22:53:07 EDT 2014
Hi Kay,
Thanks for the reply.
What I want to do is read a external drive as binary code
and not binary data. I am not concerned about paths it
is the binary code I want to read. The size is not an issue.
If the drive I am reading it to does not have the space then
I won’t allow it to read the drive as a file. A example would
be a 250 MB flash drive with 500 files on it. I want to read
the whole 250 MB instead of opening each file and reading
each file. I used to do this in hyperCard. I would think it
can be done with GCD but I was wondering if I can read
the drive without writing a external.
John Balgenorth
On Oct 8, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Technically I'd think yes, practically I'd think there are any factors that
> would cause it to fail, obviously the size of the data being the most
> obvious. Reading from one external HD and writing the file to another
> external HD would be your best bet.
>
> I assume your talking about some LC custom solution that will allow you to
> read the file back to it's many individual parts. Obviously there are
> plenty of backup/archival software out there that will back up an entire HD
> to a single disk image file on another HD.
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:05 AM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to read a whole drive
>> as a single file?
>>
>> John Balgenorth
>>
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