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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
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Subject: Re: make DOS a filesystem?
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Date: 30 Sep 90 08:59:57 GMT
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Submitted-by: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)

In article <555@usenix.ORG> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>>SCO Xenix, for example,
>>allows reading/writing to a DOS partition.
>
>I believe what is being referred to is use of the file system switch
>to support MS/DOS filesystems without the use of special tools or
>emulators.  

SCO UNIX has this ability.  I.e.,

	mount -f DOS /dev/rfd096 /mnt

or whatever.  What this has to do with standard unix is beyond me, however.
Note that NFS will work with a DOS server, which means that, basicly, just
about any current unix should be able to mount a DOS filesystem.

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