From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 3:41:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A14F37BE94 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:41:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:41:43 +0200 Received: from sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.133]) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 12aGll-00030K-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:36:18 +0200 Received: from localhost (hg9456@localhost) by sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14339 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:41:32 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de: hg9456 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:41:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun33 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2 questions related to mtools Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1) What steps are neccesary to allow to usually users to work with mtools unconstraint(So far I/they get message of the form: Could not initialze /dev/fd0 or something very simmilar,specifc BSD definition of floppy disk interface)? 2) Is -t option suitable to archived and gziped files(e.g. I happen to get some interesting fllopies with tar and gzipped programs but alas in DOS-format for newline.)? If not what other solutions are possible? kind regards, Ariel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message