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   Kerr-Mudd, John to Etienne Marais   
   Re: Debug.exe Writing to sectors   
   04 Jan 23 12:00:35   
   
   From: admin@nospicedham.127.0.0.1   
      
   On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 02:15:58 -0800 (PST)   
   Etienne Marais  wrote:   
      
   > I have studied most of the commands and features available in debug.exe now,   
   but I am curious to why and when one would like to make use of the w 'write'   
   version where you can specify the start sector of the disk. Is this for very   
   low level stuff only ?   
   >   
   Yes. I used to use it to edit floppy disk bootsectors. (we'd get some   
   boot sector viruses come in at times).   
      
      
      
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