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From: wutcd@chemnitz.guug.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Subject: Re: 386BSD and Floppies ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:47:51 GMT
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ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes:


>How do you get 386BSD to work with MS-DOS floppies?  It can
>read them with MREAD, but MDIR gives

>init: open: file not found

mdir (and some other mtools) try to open several device nodes sub-
sequently. Try linking the /dev/rfd?a nodes to /dev/rfd?b, all
would work fine then.

	J"org
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