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From: andrick@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Ulf Andrick [Biologie])
Subject: Mtools to manipulate C: (386BSD)
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:57:44 GMT
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In order to get mdir to work I recompiled it. After that I was
able to do mdir A: and mdir B: successfully, but mdir C: still
doesn't work, though I set up a partition wd0d via disklabel,
which should correspond to my MS-DOS partition, which is the
first on the disc. My DOS partition table says that the
partition begins with offset 35 (2nd track) and I tried that as offset 
for the wd0d partion as well as 0. But the result is always mdir
complaining that it can't initialise the disc and suspecting it
is a non-MS-DOS disc. Apparently, my recompilation was in so
far successful, as there isn't a message about overlapping
with active partitions anymore. Before, it probably had used wd0c, 
which comprises both of my BSD partitions.

As I don't know C I have difficulties with interpreting the source
code and finding out what Mtools expect how the partition is
formatted. So I would appreciate some help. (I'm also
interested in the German kezboard question posed by someone
else.)

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Ulf R. Andrick                                andrick@rhrk.uni-kl.de
FB Biologie - Tierphysiologie
Universitaet                             Was du nicht selber weiszt, 
D-W 6750 Kaiserslautern       das muszt du dir erklaeren (Tegtmeier)