From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 21 15:09:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA20464 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 15:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oznet11.ozemail.com.au (oznet11.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA20459 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 15:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from richard (slmel53p18.ozemail.com.au [203.108.203.98]) by oznet11.ozemail.com.au (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA16347; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 08:09:10 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199709212209.IAA16347@oznet11.ozemail.com.au> From: "Richard Lyon" To: "Keith Spencer" , Subject: Re: I DID IT !! mounted floppy Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 08:08:41 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1008.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.1008.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, You might like to look at mtools. This package/port allows you to access dos floppies in a convenient manner without having to go through the usual mount/umount, i.e. : mdir a: mcopy unixfile a: mcopy "a:*" . etc .... It also supports long filenames from WINNT/WIN95. There is a bad sector check facility for floppies, which is important. Regards ... -----Original Message----- From: Keith Spencer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Saturday, 20 September 1997 16:54 Subject: I DID IT !! mounted floppy Hi all, forget my plee earlier, I figured it out ....clever me! This might seem a small victory but it is at least something this klutz has managed ;^) Keith Spencer Teacher...St Margaret Marys College Townsville Australia