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Subject: Re: Mounting MS-Dos Floppy
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From: mcconnel@hydra.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell)
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In article <3b17fbda.0@news.tm.net.my>,
Rosli Shafiee <licombat@tm.net.my> wrote:
>Dear fellow minix friends,
>Did anybody know? How to mount MS-Dos Floppy so that I can read on mouted
>directory?
>

You can't. At least not with distribution minix. But the distribution comes
with the dosread and doswrite programs that let you copy files from and
write files to the raw device. Or you can use the programs in the mintools 
package available at my web site.


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