floppy mount (was: no subj)

Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. kdk at daleco.biz
Tue Jan 27 09:26:35 PST 2004


Steven Howe wrote:

>this may sound dumb,
>
>but
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>how do I read a floppy?
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>do I have to mount/unmount the floppy drive every time I use it?
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>if so, can someone help or sprovide a link for a tutorial...?
>
> 
>
> 
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>thx.
>
>steven
>
>  
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I'm sure it's "in the handbook", but
I'm not wishing to just say RTFM,
(although that *is* a great idea...) :-)

I put this in my ~/.cshrc:

        alias a:        mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy

So now I feel real comfortable ;-)

:D

Kevin Kinsey



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