Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!cri.dk!ns From: ns@csd.cri.dk (Nick Sandru) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Problems with DOSDIR, DOSREAD, and DOSWRITE Keywords: MINIX, DOSREAD, IBM Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 12:38:01 GMT References: <55996@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1516@opus.NMSU.Edu> <13507@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@csd.cri.dk Organization: Computer Resources International A/S Lines: 35 asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes: >In article <1516@opus.NMSU.Edu> jejenkin@nmsu.edu (JENKINS) writes: [...] >}I attempted to use the DOSXXX commands to grab some C code I wanted to >}load up. I keep getting a message that says "unable to open /dev/dosA" >}(or dosB or dosC, whichever drive I try to read from). >Do the following >ln /dev/fd0 /dev/dosA >ln /dev/fd1 /dev/dosB >ln /dev/hd1(or whatever your dos HD partition is) /dev/dosC >then try again and it will work I did it too, but when I tried to use DOSXXX from a non-privileged login, it failed. I had to set DOSXXX as setuid root. >culater > Bruce >--------- > ### ## >Courtesy of Bruce Varney ### # >aka -> The Grand Master # >asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu ### ##### # >PUCC ### # >;-) # # >;'> # ## Nick Sandru -- .signature waiting at the entry signal