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From: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe CHARNIER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 - Copying text files to DOS floppies
Date: 01 Feb 1995 18:40:54 GMT
Organization: LIRM - Montpellier France
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References: <ryan.41.2F2F9E9F@phy.fsu.edu>
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In-reply-to: ryan@phy.fsu.edu's message of Wed, 1 Feb 1995 14:45:51 GMT
>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Ryan <ryan@phy.fsu.edu> writes:
In article <ryan.41.2F2F9E9F@phy.fsu.edu> ryan@phy.fsu.edu (Joe Ryan) writes:
Joe> I have a text file on a non-networked FreeBSD machine and
Joe> would like to copy it to a DOS formatted floppy.
Joe> 1) Am I using the wrong utility (mcopy)?
mwrite unix-filename dos-filename
Joe> 2) Is there an easy way to copy a text file to a DOS floppy?
Joe> If so, how?
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt ; cp unix-filename /mnt/dos-filename ; umount /mnt
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