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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B1 and MSDOS Disks
Message-ID: <254@amanue.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 06:03:29 GMT
References: <187@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
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In article <187@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>What are the UNIX commands on the 7300 for reading from and writing to
>an MSDOS-formatted floppy disk?  (I know I can do it with 'ua', but
>....)  Thanks.
>

Pete:  Don't even *THINK* of using the stuff that comes from AT&T for
dealing with MSDOS floppies.  You want the public domain mtools package.
I believe it was written by Emmet Gray (fthood!egray) -- somebody should
have it archived somewhere.  It works nicely from the shell, and allows
wildcards, which as far as I know the ua tools don't.  mtools uses mread
to read DOS floppies and mwrite to write them.
-- 
 Jim Rosenberg
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