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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1155 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:28:12 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5!rooij From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: [386BSD] 2 Questions Message-ID: <1993Feb10.161539.23445@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: happy Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven References: <1993Feb10.055813.3835@njitgw.njit.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 16:15:39 GMT Lines: 24 elie@sensors.njit.edu (Elie I. Mourad) writes: >rz </dev/com1 >/dev/com1 works only from root. A /dev/com1: Device >Busy error comes up when its a normal user. >How to transfer files between DOS and 386BSD partition ? >Exact syntax would be helpful. >Thanks. >-- > ________ >________________________________/--------\______________________________________ > Besides the fact that it seems pretty useless to 'rz </dev/com1>/dev/com1' you've got to open the device twice. So I would expect an EBUSY indeed. Use either pcfs (posted to the net some time ago) or mtools. Both are (probably) available from ref.tfs.com (/usr/packages (?)) -Guido