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- From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
- Subject: Re: Need Help: Mtools
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.163901.2067@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1992Aug20.203910.7846@mcs.kent.edu>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:39:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.203910.7846@mcs.kent.edu> jhuang@Chaos.mcs.kent.edu (Jing Huang) writes:
- > Hello netters. I just realized that my "mtools" are behaving funny.
- >
- > Specifically, when I used "mdir b:" the first time, it gave me the
- >correct diretory list of the diskette. But then after I changed to another
- >diskette, "mdir b:" gave me the old (the first) diretory list. In other words,
- >"mdir b:" seemed to have a memory of only the first invocation. To get a file
- >list of another diskette, I have to reboot Linux. That is crazy. "mdir c:"
- >seems ok though.
- >
- > What should I do to correct this behavior?
- >
- >--
- >Jing Huang | jhuang@Chaos.mcs.kent.edu
- >Department of Physics
- >Kent State University
- >Kent, OH 44242
- >
-
- Change floppy drive, perhaps. I remember having same
- problem when building the system with NEC 1.44 FD.
- It was in dos, that I discovered it and it was the drive.
- Anyway, my mtools works fine.
-
- Rafal
-
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