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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0 problem with copying MSDOS files to/from the floppy drive. Date: 24 Jan 1995 02:59:11 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3g1qdv$fn3@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3g0qqh$t7i@darkstar.ucsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3g0qqh$t7i@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, Chris Haidinyak <chrish@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote: > 1.) When copying binary files to an MSDOS floppy diskette, they > get mangled. I mount the floppy diskette using the following > command : "Mangled" how? I do this all the time! > 2.) When exchanging diskettes after a FreeBSD-2.0 write, the > system doesn't recognize that the data has changed. Stupid > question but do I have to run a command to "freshen" the > files FreeBSD sees? Umount it! > Does anyone know of a utility to copy MSDOS files to/from a >FreeBSD 2.0 disk slice? I know that BSDI had the "m" utilities and >I liked them enough to use them when I used BSDI. Otherwise, can >someone direct me to a solution to my problems? You can also mount the disk slice as a DOS filesystem. The `mtools' that BSDI uses are also available at various places on the net.. Jordan