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From: fdg@sortac.UUCP (Fred Gant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: error message
Message-ID: <192@sortac.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 16:42:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: sortac.192
Posted: Fri Sep  4 16:42:53 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 20:48:28 EDT
References: <278@ndmath.UUCP>
Reply-To: fdg@sortac.UUCP (Fred Gant)
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In article <278@ndmath.UUCP> dean@ndmath.UUCP (Dean Alvis) writes:
>
>I hope someone can help interpret the following error message. After
>trying to run a command of the form "dosread 1 file", the message
>	dosread: cannot execute
>appears. The dosread program was located on /dev/fd0, which was
>mounted on /usr at the time. The DOS disk was on /dev/fd1, which was
>unmounted at the time. Also, the permissions on dosread seem normal:
>rwxr-xr-x. All this took place on a 256K system under Minix 1.1.
>What am i missing?
>
>dean
You didn't indicate your location when you issued the command.  
My first guess is that you were not in the directory which contained
dosread.  Dosread must be in your path or you must be in the where
dosread resides or you must give the complete path on your command
line, such as /usr/commands/dosread -a 1 file >/usr/commands/file.new.

You will note that I assumed an ascii file to be read into the commands
directory.  I don't mean to belittle you by this simplistic reply but
since you can not mount a DOS disk on a MINIX directory and you noted
that it was not mounted, I thought the answer might be this simple case.

Fred Gant 
AT&T Network Systems, 
Atlanta, Georgia