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- From: simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us (Simson L. Garfinkel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Mounting a MS-DOS floppy
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.140337.15360@next.cambridge.ma.us>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:03:37 GMT
- References: <PPOH.92Sep10095358@amethyst.tcs.tufts.edu>
- Sender: simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us
- Reply-To: simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us
- Organization: Simson Garfinkel and Associates, Inc.
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- In article <PPOH.92Sep10095358@amethyst.tcs.tufts.edu>
- ppoh@amethyst.tcs.tufts.edu (Paul B. Poh) writes:
- >
- > I am correct in assuming that there is no way of mounting an MS-DOS floppy
- > in a NeXT. ex. "mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0a /DOS" like on a Sun. NeXT's docs
- > seem to indicate that by putting a MS-DOS formatted disk into the drive a
- > folder named DOS will appear in the root folder. But I don't see a
- > directory named /DOS.
- >
- > Anyone know how I can read a MS-DOS disk on a NeXT if I'm not at the
- > console or if I'm not running the NeXT window manager.
- >
-
- altos> /usr/filesystems/DOS.fs/DOS.util
- usage: /usr/filesystems/DOS.fs/DOS.util action device [[mount_point] removable
- writable]
- action:
- -p (Probe)
- -m (Mount)
- -i (Initialize)
- -r (Repair)
- -u (Unmount)
- altos>
- --
-
- ................................................................simson
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