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From: skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Funny floppy problems
Message-ID: <3700007@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 3 Nov 88 23:33:09 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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Are you reading the floppy under Dos or Xenix?  If you simply "dir"
a diskette under DOS, it shouldn't touch it at all.  If you're using
the Xenix "mount" command, however, I believe xenix writes stuff to the
floppy.  You can test this out by write-protecting your disk--I don't
think you'll be able to mount it.  In any case, if you've got a write
protect tab on your disk, nothing should be able to happen to it.  If 
something does anyway, that's an evil drive.

Rich Skrenta