From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 10:24:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA03722 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 10:24:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (root@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA03705 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 10:24:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA01967; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 02:54:41 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 02:54:41 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199608051724.CAA01967@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: larry@avalon.cbl.cees.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of MSDOS filesystem support? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199608051640.MAA14347@avalon.cbl.cees.edu> you wrote: : Hi, : I've been hearing rumors that "the next release" of FreeBSD would : have support for MSDOS filesystems, but it doesnt appear that 2.1.5 : does. Is that in the works for 2.2? FWIW 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 both contain support for MSDOS filesystems... I think that the man pages mention that mounting drives r/w isn't a really good idea if you value your data, but i read/write to dos floppies all the time... Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key