From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jun 30 10:40:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29283 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dworkin.amber.org (petrilli@dworkin.amber.org [209.31.146.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29206 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petrilli@dworkin.amber.org) Received: from localhost (petrilli@localhost) by dworkin.amber.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id NAA15734; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:39:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:39:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher G. Petrilli" To: Mike Smith cc: Gerd Truschinski , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP - Server with ZIP an Floppy In-Reply-To: <199806301727.KAA06751@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > If you want to use the DOS format, look at 'mtools'. It hadn't occured to me, but this is a great "work-around". If you can modify the FTp server to talk to the disk using mtools rather than a regular file system, you never have to mount it, so you never have to worry about eject, etc :-) Ah the joys of people who look for the easy solution! :-) Sometimes I overcomplicate :-) Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message