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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!sgiblab!rpal.rockwell.com!imagen!imagen!klee From: klee@imagen.com (Kanghoon Lee) Subject: Re: Writing to floppies Message-ID: <klee.776360361@imagen> Sender: usenet@aqm.com Nntp-Posting-Host: imagen Organization: imagen References: <324a2d$o5u@news.doit.wisc.edu> Date: 8 Aug 94 15:39:21 GMT Lines: 24 porter@fozzie (Ron Porter) writes: >Hello, > I have a 486 system that i've installed 1.1.5.1 on. It is at home at >least for the time being so there's no network connectrion. I need to >know how to get files off the system and bring them into my work. Onto >floppies seems to be the only possibility. Can FreeBSD write to DOS >floppies? I've tried to copy files to the /dos partition and was >informed that this was "read only". Can anyone point out a book or maybe >a FAQ that explains how to do this. >Thank >Ron Porter >-- >*********************************************************** >*Ron Porter porter@chem.wisc.edu * >*Univ. Of Wisconsin Chemistry Dept * >*1101 University Ave. Madison Wi 53706 * >*********************************************************** Try mtools which contains mread, mwrite, mdir, etc. They perform file operation to msdos floppies. Kang