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From: klee@imagen.com (Kanghoon Lee)
Subject: Re: Writing to floppies
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porter@fozzie (Ron Porter) writes:

>Hello,
>  I have a 486 system that i've installed 1.1.5.1 on. It is at home at
>least for the time being so there's no network connectrion. I need to
>know how to get files off the system and bring them into my work. Onto
>floppies seems to be the only possibility. Can FreeBSD write to DOS
>floppies? I've tried to copy files to the /dos partition and was
>informed that this was "read only". Can anyone point out a book or maybe
>a FAQ that explains how to do this.
>Thank
>Ron Porter

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>*Ron Porter                  porter@chem.wisc.edu         *
>*Univ. Of Wisconsin          Chemistry Dept               *
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Try mtools which contains mread, mwrite, mdir, etc.  They perform file operation
to msdos floppies.

Kang