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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!olivea!charnel!fish From: fish@ecst.csuchico.edu (Kevin Haddock) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD and Floppies ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH Message-ID: <1etqcjINNour@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: 24 Nov 92 17:56:35 GMT References: <83569@ut-emx.uucp> <wutcd.722083671@hadrian> Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu In article <wutcd.722083671@hadrian> wutcd@chemnitz.guug.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes: >ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes: > > >>How do you get 386BSD to work with MS-DOS floppies? It can >>read them with MREAD, but MDIR gives > >>init: open: file not found > >mdir (and some other mtools) try to open several device nodes sub- >sequently. Try linking the /dev/rfd?a nodes to /dev/rfd?b, all >would work fine then. I have had luck just recompiling most programs that give me problems out of the binary distribution. I had this problem out of the box with mtools and it was one that came around to recompiling. Many others (like troff) dumped core but work fine now with a fresh recompile from sources. Don't ask me why. These are the great mysteries! -Kevin fish@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu ----- Hackers do it with fewer instructions!