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Re: many Q
Ira Abramov writes:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Yaron wrote:
>
> > > remember, this isn't DOS, you need to mount/umount even floppies.
> >
> > Just pointing out you can use mtools (that's mdir, mcopy, mdel etc, read
> > man mtools) for floppies (I think... never tried it on HDDs...) and you
> > don't need to mount/umount for that.
> >
>
> A. I think you will see mtools DOES mount the floppy for each action,
Nope. It reads directly from /dev/fd*. It understands the msdos
filesystem all by itself, which is why you can even compile & use it
on SUNs.
--
Dr. Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il
References:
- Re: many Q
- From: Yaron <yaron@Starlight.trendline.co.il>
- Re: many Q
- From: Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com>