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Subject: Re: reading and writing DOS files
To: dungan@utdallas.edu
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:09:18 -0800 (PST)
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> Hello, 

> I'm running FreeBSD 2.0, and I would like to:

> 1) Read DOS text files from the /dev/fd0a 
> (the A: drive).

Use mread.

> 2) Similarly, I would like to copy UNIX 
> text files to a diskette, and be able
> to read them in DOS.

mcopy.

> Any information you could provide would be 
> appreciated!!

It's also possible to mount a DOS floppy.

# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt