In article <1992Aug17.224605.18276@iitmax.iit.edu>, thssbxv@iitmax.iit.edu (Boris Vaysburg) writes...
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>Why is it when I use rawrite.exe to copy some stuff from my dos partition to
>the disk and then when I use dd I get 1.44Meg file independently of what the original size was. And of cource I can not 
>uncompress, tar it later.   

What would an EOF look like on a floppy?

Thus you get back the whole floppy, with junk in the sectors that rawrite did
not write there in the first place. Still, the tar/cpio/whatever file is OK!

Regards
Richard Sharpe