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- From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: dos commands help wanted
- Message-ID: <9212221819.AA02315@invid.mwc.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:34:19 GMT
- References: <9212182026.AA25458@relay1.UU.NET>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- >
- > In article <18285@mindlink.bc.ca>, Mark_Ward@mindlink.bc.ca (Mark Ward)
- > writes...
- > >I need some help with the dos commands. I have just installed Coherent 4and
- > >everything is working just fine. However when I use the doscp and other dos
- > >commands I get the message " cannot open device c ". I have my hard drive
- > >partioned so that primary dos partition is active and I use bootstrap to boot
- > >coherent. I don't think I made any mistakes when installing. I also checked
- > >out the file msdos and it contained the line c=\dev\at0a, so I assumed
- > >everything was fine, but I still can't use the dos commands. Any help would
- > >be greatly appreciated.
- > >
- > > Mark
- > >--
- > > E-mail address: Internet: Mark_Ward@mindlink.bc.ca Compuserve: 70323,3601
- >
- > I had a similar problem, and MWC tech. support told me that permissions had to
- > be set to permit a regular user to access the DOS partition of the hard drive.
- > Try running your commands as root and if they work, then you know it's a
- > permissions problem. root then has to use chown or something to declare that
- > you have permission to open C:
- >
- > Good luck,
- > ])ave
- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Dr. David Batchelor Space Science Data Operations Office Mail Code 632
- > NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD 20771 USA
- > batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov == &( personal_opinions && !NASA_policy );
- >
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- Please do not forget to modify the msdos config file in /etc/default to
- let the system know where your C drive is.
-
- mwc tech support
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