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From: gurilla@iii.net (*ANONYMOUS*)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.questions
Subject: Re: Possible (re)convert from Linux - specific questions
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 13:03:21 GMT
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>The same as it was in 2.0, which is the same as it was in 1.1.5.

>>2)  How about the status of FAT write capability?  When I started using
>>BSD 1.5, it had FAT read and write capability.  Soon, messages came out
>>mentioning corruption using the write capability, and stating that
>>only read should be used on FAT.  By 2.0, this was claimed to be fixed.

>I don't remember it ever being claimed to be fixed.

>>Of course, soon after 2.0 came out, again issues arose about corruption
>>on writing to FAT, so write support was removed.  I have not seen this
>>made an issue either way since.  Is FAT file-system supported reliably
>>for both reads and writes now?

>Nope.
  In Linux, I usually ended up using it's ftp/telnet to download, which ended 
up going into my Linux filesystem. Then I copied them into my /dos1 directory, 
are you saying I can't do that with FreeBSD?