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Re: many Q
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,
B. moreover, those are despeakable FAT formatted floppies only, I fart in
their general direction!
C. a 3.5" floppy? if a girl wouldn't agree to get one, why should I treat
my server in any other way?
D. "only lamers use mtools, real experts write the bits out to /dev/fd0"
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