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From: arturj@flowbee.interaccess.com (Artur Jasowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Reading MS-DOS Floppy
Date: 2 Jun 1995 04:28:23 GMT
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Neo Teck Hoe (neo@technet.sg) wrote:
: Hi,

: I would like to know if there is a possibility for us to mount
: a MS-DOS formatter diskette on the BSDI system and download the
: data file directly.  Please help.  Thanks.

: Neo

On mu FreeBSD box 
 mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /fd0
works fine. I'm not sure if this will work for yor BSDI, but it should be 
something very simillar. "man mount" would be a good starting point :)

Artur