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Date:      Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:10:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Keith Spencer <bsd@smmc.qld.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I export logs etc to dos or floppy
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921210939.4716I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199709200335.NAA17955@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au>

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On Fri, 2 May 1997, Keith Spencer wrote:

> In order to get help I need to know how to move or copy cnf files or 
> whatever I like from the bsd partition to the dos partition (not 
> extended...it is a win 95 boot partition)
> Is it easier to mount the floppy and copy to it? Would dos be able to 
> read it?

The text file line termination for UNIX is different than DOS.  You can
copy text files by mounting but you'll need to run them through a
convertor to change the line termination.  Several have been posted to
-questions recently, check the archives.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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