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- From: plu@math.psu.edu (Todo Simpson)
- Subject: Thanks for all who responded
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- Organization: Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:26:17 GMT
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- This is to thank all those (there were quite a few of you) who
- answered my question about reading from a floppy. You were right, I
- should have been using /dev/fp021.... When I did this, I was able to
- read the contents of the disk. (I hadn't been clear on the
- distinction between filesystems and cpio archives; evidently this one
- had a filesystem on it, which was what I expected.) One respondent
- observed that the Office program uses /mnt to mount the floppy
- filesystem, which should explain why it didn't work: I had deleted
- /mnt because I didn't know what was the point of it and wanted to save
- space. Now I'm a UNIX system administrator, I ought to be more
- careful....
-
- Thanks again to all who responded, and to all who were thinking of
- responding but didn't get around to it before...no need for more
- responses.
- --
- Todd Andrew Simpson ``That would bother me like two per cent
- PSU Dept of Mathematics of nothing at all.'' - Philip Marlowe
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