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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!eonu24
- From: eonu24@castle.ed.ac.uk (I Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
- Subject: Re: DOS floppy disk driver for UNIX
- Keywords: dos, unix, driver
- Message-ID: <24887@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 11:04:45 GMT
- References: <generous.713743473@nova> <4562@news.duke.edu>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- magidj@cellbio.duke.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
-
- >>Does anyone know of where I might find sources for a driver
- >>to read DOS disks from a UNIX machine (preferably BSD and/or
- >>SunOS). Any pointers/information is appreciated.
-
- >The Linux Virtual File System stuff implements this on a kernel level;
- >Linux is a mostly POSIX system, but perhaps it wouldn't be too difficult
- >to adapt for BSD. You can check out the Linux kernel stuff at
- >tsx-11.mit.edu or reggae.oit.unc.edu.
-
- Before Dos stuff made it into the Linux kernel everyone was using a package
- called mtools (comp.sources.unix I think) which reads/writes/etc dos format
- floppies and hard disks. The code is a bit freeform for my tastes but you might
- bew able to get enough from it.
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- Iain
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