Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer
From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Funny floppy problems
Summary: mount -r /dev/fd048
Message-ID: <240@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 88 01:35:49 GMT
References: <1657@csun.edu> <3700007@eecs.nwu.edu>
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <3700007@eecs.nwu.edu>, skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) writes:
> 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

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Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.