Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 16:22:33 -0600 (CST) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: dungan@utdallas.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: reading and writing DOS files Message-ID: <9503062222.AA12087@olympus> In-Reply-To: <95Mar4.131112cst.21045@utdallas.edu> from "dungan@utdallas.edu" at Mar 4, 95 01:11:05 pm
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> > Hello, > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.0, and I would like to: > > 1) Read DOS text files from the /dev/fd0a > (the A: drive). > > 2) Similarly, I would like to copy UNIX > text files to a diskette, and be able > to read them in DOS. > > Any information you could provide would be > appreciated!! > > Thank you very much > Andy Dungan > dungan@utdallas.edu > There are at least two ways. 1) use the mtools package. 2) mount the disk as a dos partition mount_msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt cd mnt vi file ...etc. umount /mnt when done. the mtools package should be available on ftp.freebsd.org. It has been before. Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________
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