From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 4:24:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBBA37BC2D for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 04:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12aGzs-000F3Q-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:50:52 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12aGzs-000L89-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:50:52 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:50:52 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Danny Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't mformat work on FBSD 3.3?? Message-ID: <20000329125052.D96553@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <00033008521405.00326@freebsd.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00033008521405.00326@freebsd.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Danny wrote: > Hello, > > - University professors need my assignments on a hard copy and a copy on floppy > disks > - Usually use the LAN, Email never used flps > - Sadly the university professors runs Windows > > Question > > 1) I was wondering if someone could tell me how to format a Microsoft floppy > and allow me to copy files to this Microsoft flooppy? newfs_msdos and fdformat would appear to do what you want (though I have no need for them), though if you explain in what way mformat doesn't work, someone may be able to help you with that. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message