From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 12 3:34: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE2137B41A for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 209-239-208-79.stk.jps.net ([209.239.208.79] helo=rover) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16vyNG-0006zY-00 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:33:47 -0700 From: "Sameer R. Manek" To: Subject: RE: very old bug Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:33:54 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <87sn612vsh.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Harald Arnesen > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:58 AM > "Brian T.Schellenberger" writes: > > > In fact, MS-DOS provide far superior support for floppies than Linux or > > FreeBSD or any other Unix I've used. > > In what way? Perhaps in the way this thread has been discussing for the past 10 or so posts? Namely the handling of error conditions, when dealing with a floppy that has been write protected. In MS-DOS you weren't stuck in an endless loop of attempting to write to the floppy. Sameer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message