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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:10:01 -0800
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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Subject: Re: misc/804: fdformat - patch to add DOS-filsystem
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The following reply was made to PR misc/804; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To: ah@alvman.robin.de
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
        haakh%socrates@socrates.st.bauing.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: Re: misc/804: fdformat - patch to add DOS-filsystem
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 19:01:28 +0100 (MET)

 > 	I added an option (-D) to write a dos-filesystem to the floppies.
 > 	The changes are based on msdosfs and mformat (mtools).
 
 hmmm...
 
 I don't like very much the idea of duplicating code (and possibly
 have to mantain multiple copies). Why don't you just make fdformat
 invoke mformat with the appropriate (possibly configurable) arguments
 ? This way, once mtools 2.XX (or hfstools or whatever) are upgraded
 to write a W95 (or HFS) filesystem, you get the new capabilities
 for free.
 
 	Luigi
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 Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
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