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From: Werner Griessl <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
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Subject: Re: When msdosfs (re)finished?
To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek)
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 10:43:26 +0000 ()
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> 
> After mounting my dos slice/partition and listing and reading some files, 
> I, for the fifth or sixth time (yes, I'm both stupid and stubborn -- a 
> dangerous combination ;) destroyed my root ufs partition (probably /var 
> and /usr too)...
> 
> I know that the msdosfs code is being worked on; what I'd like to know is 
> when it's expected to be finished?  From perusing the mail archives, it 
> looks like some of the people who are working on it are also working on a 
> number of other major things at the same time.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Outnumbered?  Maybe.  Outspoken?  Never!
> tIM...HOEk
> 
> 

For the moment you can use the new mtools-3.0 from the ports tree .
m(dir|read|write) c:

Werner