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Date:      Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:14:16 +0000 (GMT)
From:      mlduke@concentric.net
To:        Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   A Driver, A Revelation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980628160034.509A-100000@mlduke.concentric.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980628092220.fewtch@serv.net>

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It just dawned yesterday that I do not really know what a driver _is_.
A little bit of data on a disk. It "comes" with the device, in this case
a Mitsumi CD Rom Drive. Win finally gave up the game. Format & reload
time. Never should have let it go so long. DOS cannot now "see" that
drive. A 12 cent 3.5" corrupted disk prevents reloading. Which holds up
a major web site redesign project--22 items on an order form, auto credit
card system, $20K in art inventory to sell and dead in the water.

But FBSD can see it. Does anyone know: Is there a way to copy the driver
to /dos and make it work there? Which means to say, any file can be copied
to /dos, but I don't even know what file it would be in the absence of the
absolute path name.

It came as a revelation, also, that I could even work on
/dos/windows/desktop files in FBSD, but this has come as a real shock.

Anyone?

ML Duke


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