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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!sitka.triumf.ca!felawka From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How to work with DOS floppies Date: 11 May 1993 15:31:34 GMT Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC Lines: 13 Message-ID: <1sogsmINNkmc@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <1993May10.182332.2025@alw.nih.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: sitka.triumf.ca In article <1993May10.182332.2025@alw.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes: >There wouldn't be any significant numbers of 386bsd without mread. >It's used to copy files from DOS-formatted diskettes to the 386bsd >filesystem during initial installation. I'm glad it works, but WHY >do none of the other mtools commands work? All of them, even the >readonly mdir, return "mdir: init: no such file or directory" no >matter what form of arg. is given. The binaries on the distribution don't work. Recompiling should make them work for you. Larry Felawka