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- From: ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
- Subject: Re: DOS floppy disk driver for UNIX
- Date: 15 Aug 1992 21:19:57 GMT
- Organization: Centre for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Sheffield
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- References: <generous.713743473@nova> <4562@news.duke.edu> <24887@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- Keywords: dos, unix, driver
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- In article <24887@castle.ed.ac.uk> eonu24@castle.ed.ac.uk (I Reid) writes:
- >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.
-
- >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.
-
- mtools is a classic case of putting a great deal of work into
- something, but not quite doing enough to make a really good
- programme. to note just two problems that can produce the urge
- to work mayhem on the author:
-
- a) the programmes do not return consistent/useful error codes, so
- you cannot rely on their exit status in shell scripts;
-
- b) no record locking is implemented, so if you get multiple
- copies executing at the same time, you will trash your dos
- partition.
- >
- >Iain
-
-
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- earl h. kinmonth, centre for japanese studies, university of sheffield,
- sheffield, england s10 2tn jp1ek@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk
-