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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!news.dfn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: DOS fs (pcfs) formatting a floppy Date: 4 May 1993 18:20:43 GMT Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen Lines: 34 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s6c5r$t5s@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de NNTP-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OK, I know this is a keen question but I was asked it lately by one of my guinea pig users "..and how can I format a floppy ?". "Hahum, umn, gulp", I said, "em, er, this is not possible with this wonderful UNIX system. You gotta find some DOS system or have to buy preformatted floppies." "OK", he said, "and how can I take some files home or bring some files I edited on my home system to that machine?" "You can use mread/mwrite, called mtools or you can use tar but then I have to give you a tar for DOS first and this requires to install djgpp/go32...." The chronist stops here and asks the community: 1) Is there a fd format program meanwhile? 2) How far has grown pcfs ? (paul?@amdahl.com ??) Does it fit into 0.1-0.2.3? ------ -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de *** Error code 1 Stop.