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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!mindspring!uunet!in2.uu.net!140.142.64.3!news.u.washington.edu!somsky From: somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu (William R. Somsky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Can I read a DOS written Zip disk under FreeBSD? Date: 20 Dec 1996 01:08:23 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 23 Message-ID: <59cou7$clu@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dirac.phys.washington.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32828 Is there any way to read a DOS written Zip disk under FreeBSD? Either mounting it as a DOS filesystem or using mtools? I couldn't get either way to work -- but perhaps I'm doing it wrong. What I'm trying to do is use a friends DOS system, which has a fast internet connection, to load files onto the Zip disk, and then carry that home & unload it onto my FreeBSD system -- much faster and surer that trying to download things over a slow, flakey modem connection. I managed to get things to work by first booting Win95, copying the files from the Zip to my main disk, booting FreeBSD and then using mtools to copy the files from my DOS/Win partition, but that's a rather roundabout and time consuming method. Is there anyway I can copy the files from the (DOS) Zip disk directly from withing FreeBSD? Thanks for any info, W R Somsky ________________________________________________________________________ William R. Somsky somsky@phys.washington.edu Department of Physics, Box 351560 B432 Physics-Astro Bldg Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560 206/616-2954