Reading Files

[JB]

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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