Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:53:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Guang-an Wu <gawu@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to use floppy disk Message-ID: <19981016115300.T468@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36266274.5CAF3156@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>; from Guang-an Wu on Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:00:36PM -0400 References: <36266274.5CAF3156@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>
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On Thursday, 15 October 1998 at 17:00:36 -0400, Guang-an Wu wrote: > Dear Sir/madam, > I got a question about how to use a floppy disk in FreeBSD. Remove it from the box and throw it as far as possible. Seriously, don't use floppies if you can possibly avoid them. If you have a Microsoft floppy which you want to read, use mtools from the Ports Collection. > I once saw a guy entering a 4-letter command like "sash" and then he > entered a special state, something like after hitting "ftp". Using Help, > he got a list of commands about reading, writing and formating a floppy > disk. Could you please tell what command he used? Maybe it was sash, if he was using a MIPS-based box. They have a "Standalone Shell" called sash. FreeBSD doesn't have any equivalent, since it's a motherboard function. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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