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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B1 and MSDOS Disks
Message-ID: <196@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 16:04:28 GMT
References: <187@mccc.UUCP> <2507@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Organization: The College on the Other Side of US Route 1
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Keywords: UnixPC floppy MS-DOS

In article <2507@crash.cts.com> ford%kenobi@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto) writes:
|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.
|
|Read Ms.Dos floppy:		/usr/bin/msdos
|Write Ms.Dos floppy:		/usr/bin/md_write
|Format Ms.Dos floppy:		/usr/bin/md_format
|
|Note that all of these programs do bizarre things to the current window,
|so you should probably run them with a program like "windy", or at least
|be prepared to fix up the window afterwards.
|
Thanks, Mike.  I tried these and had no problems with the windows.  BUT,
isn't there some way to emulate MSDOS's
		COPY A:*.* C:
???  This business of copying one file at a time sucks!!

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