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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org>
Subject: Re: very old bug
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:08:41 -0400
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On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:37 pm, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote:
| On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
| > Come to think of it, perhaps the best fix for floppies is to simply
| > disable the mounting of floppy-based file systems, forcing you to use
| > mtools, which doesn't have this problem.
|
| Don't forget that mtools are only for accessing MSDOS floppies.
|
| If you use dd to write a new boot floppy and the disk is write protected,
| you're still SOL, no?

Picky, picky.

BTW, my proosal was not intended to be serious!

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| Geoff
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