Re: dos floppies

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:24:55PM +0000, Al Hudson wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> > 
> > > 	You might also want to mount dos floppies (why you might want to
> > > do this having mtools scapes me, though), messing about with /etc/fstab.
> > 
> > (Nit-picking) Mounting a DOS floppy would give you the benefit of
> > caching, whereas mtools is write-through. I believe?
> 
> 	It looks as if, from the groans and moans my floppy makes X)
> 
> > But yes, I don't use anything except mtools with DOS floppies. In fact, I
> > use super-mount too, so there's non of this mount /this /that -switch
> > -switch -switch business  ;)))
> 
> 	That looks interesting for ZIPs and CDs... Might have to install
> it, then :)

Nah just use mcopy to shift the files from the floppy disk on the hard
disk and do every thing there - much much simpler.

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