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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: A: Drive?!?!?
Date: 20 Oct 1996 18:17:06 GMT
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In article <54dhdq$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
	j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>You probably want to use MS-DOS formatted floppies, do you?  In this
>case, go and install the `mtools' package.

If you want to exchange data with Windoze 95 systems and keep the long file
names, be sure to use mtools 3.x, it supports them fine. Otherwise you
could also use the mtools 2.x package.

Martin
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