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1Various html files used to be included in this directory but they were
2beginning to bloat the size of the source tarball so they have been
3removed in version 1.24 .
4
5Here are the urls of the files that were previously here plus a brief
6summary:
7
8https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html
9    - overview and examples of this package
10
11https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_dd.html
12    - discussion and examples of the sg_dd utility which is a dd variant
13      (also discusses the sgm_dd, sgp_dd and sg_read utilities)
14
15https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_ses.html
16    - discussion and examples of the sg_ses utility. SCSI Enclosure
17      Services (SES) devices may contain a lot of information,
18      structured in a non-trivial way.
19
20https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_io.html
21    - discussion of Linux SG_IO ioctl (SCSI pass-through)
22
23https://sg.danny.cz/sg/tools.html
24    - overview of around 25 storage and SCSI tools
25
26Many of those pages are also found at: https://doug-gilbert.github.io/
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28
29There are two versions of sg_scan: one for Linux and the other for Windows.
30They have different man pages: sg_scan.8.linux and sg_scan.8.win32 with
31the Makefile logic (rule in Makefile.am) copying the appropriate one to
32sg_scan.8 . sg_scan is not supported for other ports.
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34
35Douglas Gilbert
3610th June 2022
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