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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: vpix problems
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Date: 7 Dec 89 07:28:17 GMT
References: <10071@june.cs.washington.edu>
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In article <10071@june.cs.washington.edu> witold@june.cs.washington.edu (Witold Paluszynski) writes:
:I am new to 386/ix and System V in general (I have used various
:flavors of BSD systems for a number of years).  I just tried using
:VP/ix and discovered some serious problems with it.  The system
:has a DOS partition (32 MB) on the disk which is mounted with:
:	mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/0p1 /dos

Instead of mounting the partition as a phoney Unix file system which
VP/ix must then translate back to a DOS file system, why not access
the DOS partition directly from VP/ix with an entry in vpix.cnf:

; MS-DOS partition on first hard disk
D			/dev/hd00

In my experience, the result of mount -f DOS is sufficiently
dissimilar from a *nix file system that programs such as du
and find are confused.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
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