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From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How to work with DOS floppies
Date: 11 May 1993 15:31:34 GMT
Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC
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References: <1993May10.182332.2025@alw.nih.gov>
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In article <1993May10.182332.2025@alw.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes:
>There wouldn't be any significant numbers of 386bsd without mread.
>It's used to copy files from DOS-formatted diskettes to the 386bsd
>filesystem during initial installation.  I'm glad it works, but WHY
>do none of the other mtools commands work?  All of them, even the
>readonly mdir, return "mdir: init: no such file or directory" no
>matter what form of arg. is given.

The binaries on the distribution don't work.  Recompiling should make them
work for you.


					Larry Felawka