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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!ucbeh.san.uc.edu!ucunix.san.uc.edu!zuazaga
  2. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  3. Subject: Re: How do you install programs?
  4. Message-ID: <1992Aug30.183343.3004@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
  5. From: zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga)
  6. Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 18:33:43 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug30.031010.12106@eskimo.celestial.com> <QecDEIS00WAJEDSlB4@andrew.cmu.edu>
  8. Organization: University of Cincinnati
  9. Keywords: mtools vs. msdos fs
  10. Summary: mformat
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  13. In article <QecDEIS00WAJEDSlB4@andrew.cmu.edu> geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew) writes:
  14. >Rafal writes:
  15. >>PS2: Install mtools as soon as possible. ;)
  16. >Since linux now supports the dos fs, what *possible* use is mtools?
  17.  
  18. mformat can format a dos disk, there is no mkdosfs with the msdos file
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  20. Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga                            zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.edu
  21. Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics                   University of Cincinnati
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