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.TH DEVIO 1 "October 18, 2005"
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.SH NAME
devio \- program to read and write from block devices
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B devio
.RI [ options ] " files" ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B devio
command.
.PP
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\fBdevio\fP is a command line program intended to read and write
from block devices.
.SH OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-version
Show version of program.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR dd (1),
.BR cat (1).
.br
.SH AUTHOR
devio was written by John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).