Re: tlug: basic CD_ROM and Floppy matters

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 08:08:27AM +0900, Uchida Masatomo wrote:
> > > 3. Can i read MSDOS floppies and/or CD-ROMS? If so, how?
> > Use following command to read MSDOS floppies
> > mdir
> > mcopy -t a:*.txt .
> > mcopy a:* .
> 
> You can also 'mount' MSDOS floppies (and hard disk partitions) and treat
> them (almost) like native filesystem disks.
> 
>     mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy  (for DOS filesystems)
> or  mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy   (for the additional long filename
>                                           extensions from Win9x)

Do floppies support vfat?  I suppose they would, but .. is it done?

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