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On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:05:52PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:00:35AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 
> > 	Can I use dd to copy an *.exe file  from ~/ to my floppy;
> > 	then have present the file to a:\ under DOG?
> 
> No. If you use dd you'll screw up the floppy's "filesystem". Just mount
> the floppy with 'mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 <mountpoint>' and copy the
> file, or use mcopy from the mtools port.
> 

	Thanks, gents.  I guess I'm being lazy, not wanting to 
	install mtools--since, AFAIK, fdformat does a DOS-like
	format.  mtools does work, tho... .

	gary




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