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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie Question Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 15:25:43 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Cold Coast, Australia) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <322BC157.2FE3@OntheNet.com.au> References: <Pine.GSO.3.94.960902010203.23452A-100000@Stratus.CAM.ORG> <50e92c$3fs@news.swan.ac.uk> <50f320$htt@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (WinNT; I) L. Felawka wrote: > > In article <50e92c$3fs@news.swan.ac.uk> eefeisal@atlantic.swan.ac.uk (Feisal Mohammed) writes: > >In article <Pine.GSO.3.94.960902010203.23452A-100000@Stratus.CAM.ORG>, > >General American Compagnie de Reassurance-Vie du Canada wrote: > > > >>How do I go about mounting a DOS diskette under FreeBSD? > > I thoroughly agree with the previous entries' comments about using the available online information for solving a problem. Exercising the higher functions of the brain (eg. thought process) never hurt anyone!!! However, a quick answer is- # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt assuming that the MSDOS filesystem support has been built into the kernel. However, be aware that DOS uses "<cr><lf>" as line terminators for ASCII files while U*x uses simply "<lf>" (and Mac uses "<cr>") so perhaps the msdos tools might ensure that you don't end up with 'difficult to read' files on either system. Tony