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From: Jason Warner
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:00

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The Nemasys wrote:
> 
> Bill Haygood wrote:
> > If you use Caldera, from root, you can mount an MS-DOS floppy.  I have an
> > empty directory called '/a' onto which I make the mount.  On my system,
> > the following does the trick:
> >      mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /a
> 
> This should work with all versions of Linux.
> 
> --
> The Nemasys
> Nemasys Technologies
> mailto:nemasys@mindspring.com
> http://www.mindspring.com/~nemasys

or you could simply do the m* commands:

ex: mcopy filname a:

will put it in the 8.3 file format. A little easier if you just want to
quick copy


and you also (from my experience) don't need to mount the a: ..just cp
it to /dev/fd0  that works for me (I use slackware).

Jason

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From: Jason Warner <jwarner@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: unix/linux
Date: 1997/03/21
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