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Date:      Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:33:54 -0700
From:      "Sameer R. Manek" <manek@ecst.csuchico.edu>
To:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: very old bug
Message-ID:  <LMEMIKHGPPEEMMMMGIENAEDHEFAA.manek@ecst.csuchico.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87sn612vsh.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org>

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> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Harald Arnesen
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:58 AM
> "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> writes:
>
> > In fact, MS-DOS provide far superior support for floppies than Linux or
> > FreeBSD or any other Unix I've used.
>
> In what way?

Perhaps in the way this thread has been discussing for the past 10 or so
posts? Namely the handling of error conditions, when dealing with a floppy
that has been write protected.

In MS-DOS you weren't stuck in an endless loop of attempting to write to the
floppy.

Sameer



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