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- From: mjl17@mbuc.bio.cam.ac.uk (Michael Lush)
- Subject: Re: DEC Read/Write of DOS floppy disk
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.140256.18994@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: U. of Cambridge, England
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:02:56 GMT
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- A week ago I posted the following question:-
-
- > I have a DECstation 5000/25 (running ULTRIX V4.2A (Rev. 47)),
- >and I want to read and/or write to DOS floppy disks via the internal
- >disk drive.
- > How do I do this? I've been told its possible but not how
- >to do it.
-
- and offered to summerise...
-
- Anyway I got two replys boath pointing me to a package called
- mtools, a toolkit for unix read/write to DOS disks.
-
- Avalible from:-
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- ftp.uu.net
- /usenet/comp.sources.3b1/volume01
- drwxr-xr-x 512 Jul 29 18:39 mtools/
- gatekeeper.dec.com
- /.0/comp.sources.unix/volume11
- dr-xr-xr-x 512 Oct 31 18:31 mtools/
- physics.su.oz.au
- /386bsd/other-0.0
- drwxrwxr-x 512 Mar 31 1992 mtools/
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk
- /usenet/comp.archives/hardware/floppies
- drwxr-xr-x 512 May 3 1991 mtools/
-
- I also noticed something called sparc-mtools available from
- the same places, make of this what you will...
-
- Anyway thankyou very much for the help.
-
-
- Michael Lush
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