From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 17:16:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB4937B9BC for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:16:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA23E1 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 02:16:20 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 1794; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:20:34 +1000 Message-ID: <38F3C072.F53697E7@S1.com> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 00:16:50 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Daniels Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting an msdos partition References: <20000412000753.80874.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey John, > I just wanted to check on the stability and use of mount and >mount_msdos. I I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.8, and I've never had any problems with mount_msdos screwing around with my FAT32 partition. Indeed, with StarOffice loaded now, the only thing I need to boot to Win95 is for the LotusNotes*Client* (still waiting for a Linux version of the Client). So, any problems there may have been with mount_msdos are so small that I've not come across them (and I use the FAT32 partition everyday - keep my Netscape Bookmarks there, and some other stuff). >issues/workarounds? Do I need > to use translation s/w to handle the CRLF issues? It depends. Mainly on what you are transferring around, but typically for ASCII text, yes, you will need to do some stripping when you manipulate the files under Unix. > files. It would be great if StarOffice on FreeBSD could read >and write the > same files that MSOffice on Win98-2 could. I also have But it _does_. Tell the truth, possibly even better than MS-Office does (boss recently had a corrupted Word97 file - my StarOffice5.1a was able to read it, recover the text and 95% of the formatting, and I mailed him a fix version, and saved the company quite a few thousands of dollars ;') >FrontPage on Win98 > and it would be great if I could copy the files to my Apache >directory, or > if Apache would read the file from the msdos partition. Outta my depth in this - someone else will know. Hope this helps, haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message