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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 18:43:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Marc Garcia <gsi00105@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.edu>
cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: not in faq/docs
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On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Marc Garcia wrote:

> 
> ok here's another question I couldn't
> find on the faqs/docs.  Will I be able
> to access the win95 directories in
> freebsd?  Can I...what did that linux
> faq say...."mount" a win95 fat16 directory?
> can I use a dos formatted disk when saving
> from a freebsd application like it's c
> compiler?  

That has to be in the FAQ!  

mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1a /mnt

or something like that shold bring the Windows volume onto /mnt.  Adjust
the device as necessary.

> ex.  I wrote a program in borland turbo c (I don't
> know how to program in c yet in reality)
> dos. Then I saved it on a disk.  Will I be able
> to access that file when I try to open it up
> and compile it on freebsd's c compiler? and
> vice versa.

Depends on how portable you wrote your code.  You'll need to convert the
file to UNIX text format; check the mail archives.

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