Re: dos floppies

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:24:55PM +0000, Al Hudson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> 
> > 	You might also want to mount dos floppies (why you might want to
> > do this having mtools scapes me, though), messing about with /etc/fstab.
> 
> (Nit-picking) Mounting a DOS floppy would give you the benefit of
> caching, whereas mtools is write-through. I believe?

	It looks as if, from the groans and moans my floppy makes X)

> But yes, I don't use anything except mtools with DOS floppies. In fact, I
> use super-mount too, so there's non of this mount /this /that -switch
> -switch -switch business  ;)))

	That looks interesting for ZIPs and CDs... Might have to install
it, then :)
	Regards,
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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