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- From: hoesel@igc.ethz.ch (Frans van Hoesel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: striking difference on floppy msdosd <---> mtools
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.223103.21274@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 22:31:03 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.174504.24633@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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- I just ftp-ed mtools and installed it on my Indigo. What a *GREAT*
- improvement. Using msdosd it takes more than 10 minutes to write
- a 1 Mb file to the floppy, whereas mcopy (one of the commands that
- came with mtools) takes only 38 seconds Wow...
-
- Mtools also solved my problem with formatting disks... just do a fx, followed
- by a mformat. simple and easy (but a floppy that isn't in perfectly healthy
- shape, will not pass fx, but does easely pass a format on a msdos machine
- (and it will almost never pass the format from softpc))
-
- mtools should be shipped with every floppy drive! Msdosd has the advantage
- that is allows programs to access files on the drive as part of the normal
- file system, but in my experience the floppy is only used for transferring
- files between systems, or for backup purpose, for which mtools is a much
- faster solution.
-
- It took me almost 9 months, until I heard about mtools.
-
- --frans
-