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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0 problem with copying MSDOS files to/from the floppy drive.
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 02:21:23 GMT
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In article <3g0qqh$t7i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>,
Chris Haidinyak <chrish@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
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>      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?

you need to unmount the disk before you remove it!
and re-mount it for the next floppy...

>     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?
try the 'm' utilities... it's all we had before we got the msdos filesystem..
I'm pretty sure it's a 'package' or 'port'


julian