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Re: Mounting a MS-DOS floppy

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From: Tim Buck
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:16
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In article <dillon.0nmq@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>> Anyone know how I can read a MS-DOS disk on a NeXT if I'm not at the
>>> console or if I'm not running the NeXT window manager.
>
Get mtools (available from sonata/nova in /pub/next/2.0-release/source, I
believe).  The package provides many utilities for reading/writing/formatting
MS-DOS floppies from a command line.

Timothy Buck   --   rri!tim@vtserf.cc.vt.edu OR timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu
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From: tim@rri.UUCP (Tim Buck)
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Subject: Re:  Mounting a MS-DOS floppy
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