Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Thu Jan 8 20:58:22 PST 2004


On Friday 09 January 2004 15:00, Avleen Vig wrote:
> > onto floppy disks easily so users can grab what they need and use it
> > instead of having to second guess what sort of hardware they are likely
> > to be using. IMHO of course 8-)
>
> Now you've got me thinking.
> A simple website which lets you choose what drivers you want (anyone
> seen the .muttrc config page? :)
> That should be really easy to do with a little perl CGI.
> I might take a crack at this in the next week or so.

Yep, 
I suspect mtools is the easiest way to do this..

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