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From: waggoner@dtg.nsc.com (Mark Waggoner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can someone post the CrossDOS demo?
Keywords: MS-DOS floppies read-only demo
Message-ID: <117@dtg.nsc.com>
Date: 3 Oct 89 21:48:58 GMT
References: <64337@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4836@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: waggoner@dtg.UUCP (Mark Waggoner)
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In article <4836@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes:
>>>CrossDos comes with an mfm.device and you must mount your native Amiga
>
>
>Can you un-mount it once it is mouunted?
>If not, is it useful in a single floopy based system?
>REAL NAME: Joe Porkka   porkka@frith.egr.msu.edu

You don't NEED to unmount it, as you can still read regular AmigaDOS 
floppys with the same drive.  You just reference DF0: instead of
DI0: or MSDOS: or whatever you have called the CrossDOS mount.

They do provide a 'kill' program to kill the device if you want to
reclaim the memory that the MSDOSFileSystem handler and, I suppose, 
the mfm.device use.

So... YES, it is useful in a single floppy system, though you will
need some room on your system disk for mfm.device and the MSDOS
handler.



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