Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:24:30 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: mlduke@concentric.net Cc: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Driver, A Revelation Message-ID: <19980629102429.26759@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980628160034.509A-100000@mlduke.concentric.net>; from mlduke@concentric.net on Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 04:14:16PM %2B0000 References: <XFMail.980628092220.fewtch@serv.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980628160034.509A-100000@mlduke.concentric.net>
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On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 04:14:16PM +0000, mlduke@concentric.net wrote:
>
> But FBSD can see it. Does anyone know: Is there a way to copy the driver
> to /dos and make it work there? Which means to say, any file can be copied
> to /dos, but I don't even know what file it would be in the absence of the
> absolute path name.
No, a driver is written specifically for a particular hardware/software pair.
But I don't know much more about drivers than that :-)
> It came as a revelation, also, that I could even work on
> /dos/windows/desktop files in FBSD, but this has come as a real shock.
That's something. If I have to work on Microsoft files, I generally do
the whole lot under FreeBSD and convert them at the end. That seems
better than actually working on the FAT partition because mount_msdos can
behave a little strangely. Maybe I'm over-cautious, but I write to a FAT
partition as little as humanly possible. If they're text files (HTML?)
I'm pretty sure you can use mtools to copy them in such a way that the
CR/LF line endings are taken care of each time (check 'info mtools' as
well as man).
Another way is to use the freeware info-zip (not PKZip) under DOS as well
as the zip/unzip ports for freebsd. There are command-line switches to
convert the line endings of text files before or after copying the zip
file across. Things like long file names and capitalisation are well
taken care of by zip too.
As far as getting your drive to be seen there doesn't seem to be any
FreeBSD problem. You probably should be asking in Microsoft circles, but
somebody here might know where you can get a DOS or Win driver for it if
that's your main problem.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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