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From: egray@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Emmet P. Gray)
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Subject: Re: ISC2.2 DOSSETTE BROKEN AGAIN - old news?
Keywords: dossette mtools
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Date: 9 Dec 90 14:53:50 GMT
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In article <36634@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
>The ISC2.2 Dossette will NOT recognize any 1.2 mb floppy that is formated
>by any REAL command.com. Is this old news? The ISC2.0.2 Dossette works
>with the 1.2MB disk. Everytime I try to access the 1.2MB disk with 
>2.2 dossette, it complains about the diskette not being present. Is there
>a way to get around this? The VPIX that comes with ISC2.2 also does not
>recognize the 1.2 diskette - even when I tell it that B disk is using
>/dev/rdsk/f1q15dt. (But, the dossette can FORMAT a 1.2 diskette... strange)

An alternate solution might be to use a set of programs called Mtools.
Mtools is a public domain collection of programs to allow Unix systems
to read, write and manipulate files on an MSDOS filesystem (typically a
diskette).  Mtools supports "real" MSDOS hard disk partitions, VP/ix
disk "images", multiple density floppies, etc.

The following MSDOS commands are emulated:

Mtool 		MSDOS
name		equivalent	Description
-----		----		-----------
mattrib		ATTRIB		change MSDOS file attribute flags
mcd		CD		change MSDOS directory
mcopy		COPY		copy MSDOS files to/from Unix
mdel		DEL/ERASE	delete an MSDOS file
mdir		DIR		display an MSDOS directory
mformat		FORMAT		add an MSDOS filesystem to a low level format
mlabel		LABEL		make an MSDOS volume label
mmd		MD/MKDIR	make an MSDOS sub directory
mrd		RD/RMDIR	remove an MSDOS sub directory
mread		COPY		low level read (copy) an MSDOS file to Unix
mren		REN/RENAME	rename an existing MSDOS file
mtype		TYPE		display contents of an MSDOS file
mwrite		COPY		low level write (copy) a Unix file to MSDOS

The current version of Mtools is v2.0.3 (meaning version 2.0 at patch
level 3).

Mtools v2.0 was posted to the unix-pc.sources news group (and mailed to
the moderator of comp.sources.unix) on the 17th of September 1990.
Since then, patches 1, 2 and 3 have been posted to unix-pc.sources,
comp.sources.bugs, and emailed to Rich Salz.

In addition, the current version of Mtools and all the patches are
available via anonymous ftp from cerl.cecer.army.mil (129.229.1.101).

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