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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0 problem with copying MSDOS files to/from the floppy drive.
Date: 24 Jan 1995 02:59:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3g0qqh$t7i@darkstar.ucsc.edu>,
Chris Haidinyak <chrish@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>  1.) When copying binary files to an MSDOS floppy diskette, they
>      get mangled. I mount the floppy diskette using the following
>      command :

"Mangled" how?  I do this all the time!

>  2.) When exchanging diskettes after a FreeBSD-2.0 write, the
>      system doesn't recognize that the data has changed. Stupid
>      question but do I have to run a command to "freshen" the
>      files FreeBSD sees?

Umount it!

>     Does anyone know of a utility to copy MSDOS files to/from a
>FreeBSD 2.0 disk slice? I know that BSDI had the "m" utilities and
>I liked them enough to use them when I used BSDI. Otherwise, can
>someone direct me to a solution to my problems?

You can also mount the disk slice as a DOS filesystem.  The `mtools'
that BSDI uses are also available at various places on the net..

						Jordan