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Re: Copying ascii files from unix to msdos

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From: Rick Rankin
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:37
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In article <1992Nov12.123053.19137@crc.ac.uk> jmacmill@crc.ac.uk (Dr. J.C. MacMillan) writes:

>   We have a new DEC 5000/25 connected to Internet. At present we don't
>   have it connected to a decent printer. I want to copy text files from
>   the machine onto a msdos formatted floppy to print using a WP package.
>   I've been told to use the "mcopy" routine from "mtools" but this is not is
>   not installed on my machine. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of
>   this software ?
>   thanks in anticipation
>
>   John MacMillan
>   Institue of Medical Genetics, Cardiff, UK
>   E-mail: macmillan@cardiff.ac.uk
>       or  jmacmill@crc.ac.uk.

You can ftp it from prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu.  The file name is
mtools-2.0.7.tar.Z
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