From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 22:10:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D3837B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.san.rr.com (smtp2.san.rr.com [24.25.195.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EBD43E6A for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:10:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from 24-161-161-120.san.rr.com (24-161-161-120.san.rr.com [24.161.161.120]) by smtp2.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g7R5Anv05345 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:10:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@dhcp-402-55.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: mtools vs mount Message-ID: <20020826220454.P1757-100000@dhcp-402-55.san.rr.com> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have found true joy and happiness in the ease-of-use this "mtools" utility (and her sisters) affords me!! But it leaves me wondering two things: 1. It doesn't seem to support wildcards (i.e. `mmove a:*.sh .`) 2. Why doesn't `mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy` support long filenames so I can just work directly with the diskette? (e.g. I want to tar and gzip all the files on my floppy but first must mcopy them all to a temporary directory *then* tar and gzip the local copies unless you have a better way) PS - If you've read this far, here's a handy tip to say thanks! Try `mdir a: | sort +4 -5` to sort the listing alphabetically by full filename. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message