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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


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