🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Jul25.225659.11815@leland.Stanford.EDU> amon@cs.stanford.edu writes:
>In article <1992Jul25.195150.4262@mksol.dseg.ti.com> dahla@mksol.dseg.ti.com  
>(alexander dahl) writes:
>>  Am I just dreaming or what.  But to get something off of the
>>  net I must FTP to a PeeCee machine.  To get it to mine is
>>  via Floppy Net.
>>  
>>  I cannot imagine that it would be that BIG of a deal to    
>>  pass out the "new, faster" DOS driver for the NeXT floppy.
>>  
>>  Did I miss something along the way or did NeXT just decide
>>  that everyone was greatfully enjoyed with a disk drive that
>>  is slower than a Sinclair floppy?
>
>	Well, the DOS filesystem on the NeXT *is* slow. So slow that you 
>shouldn't use the workspace to transfer files on DOS disks. You should grab 
>the mtools from the net. They are infinitely faster. 
>
>	I've heard that the problem is fixed in 3.0, although I may be
>dreaming.
>
>Lga.
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>                                       |"I don't know what it's called, but
>Laurent Amon                           | we're doing one about going to see 
>       e-mail: amon@cs.stanford.edu    | a wizard. Something about following
>           lga@sandman.stanford.edu    | a yellow sick toad. (Moving Pictures)


Could you enlighten me on these mtools?  Where are they are how are they
used??

Thanks
-- 
Alex Dahl
dahla@lobby.ti.com           or        dahla@mksol.deseg.ti.com

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