home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!hobbes!md
- From: md@sco.COM (Michael Davidson)
- Subject: Re: Writing to a dos floppy.
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:11:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan07.181119.19065@sco.com>
- References: <1993Jan7.104207.2023@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Sender: news@sco.com (News admin)
- Lines: 22
-
-
- riipinen@dxcern.cern.ch (Petri Juhani Riipinen) writes:
-
- >Hello there.
-
- >I would like to use SCO Xenix for FTP:ing software. The machine, where it
- >runs, has one HD 3"5 floppy drive. Can I just do so with Xenix, that I
- >mount /dev/fd0 /myowndir and then access the floppy from /myowndir ? Does
- >the Xenix recognize the 1.44 MB floppies automatically with no problems?
- >Or do the Xenix floppies have some special format? If so, how can I write
- >to dos-formatted floppies?
-
- The only floppies that you can mount under SCO Xenix are floppies that
- have a Xenix filesystem on them (which can be created using mkfs).
-
- Xenix can read and write DOS floppies using the dos utility "doscp".
- There are a complete set of utilities for formating DOS floppies,
- copying DOS files, listing DOS directories etc (dosformat, doscp, dosdir)
- which are described on the DOS(C) manual page.
-
- SCO UNIX has kernel support for DOS filesystems and allows either
- floppy or hard disk DOS filesystems to be mounted.
-