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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Path: netcom.com!kgray
- From: kgray@netcom.com (Kerry Gray)
- Subject: Re: BFFS?
- Message-ID: <kgrayDLoynp.1Dx@netcom.com>
- Organization: Information Vampires
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- References: <4e5h6n$5bc@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:21:24 GMT
- Sender: kgray@netcom.netcom.com
-
- charles thomas (thomas@ORNL.GOV) wrote:
- : With all this talk about BFFS I'm wondering why
- : it's used. I installed NetBSD-1.1 from scratch
- : and it came with an ADOS file system driver. It
- : appears that I can mount and copy from ADOS
- : file systems without any problem. What exactly
- : does BFFS do for me?
-
- The ADos fs is read-only. You can't save files on your Unix disk to an
- AmigaDOS disk so they can be read under DOS. To read a Unix file under
- DOS, you use the read-only BFFS.
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