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Tim Vanderhoek writes:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
>> Any strong votes to the contrary?  I don't think there's anything
>> about the current msdosfs we want to keep anyway.
>
> It works great for reading 3 1/2" floppies.  This is fairly important...

You're the first to say this, but nobody else has said you can use
mtools instead.  Possibly mtools is buggy, too, but it's user-level
code, and it works for me.  I can even write DOS floppies with it :-)

Greg