Re: tlug: basic CD_ROM and Floppy matters

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Scott Stone writes:
 > 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?
mtools writes long filenames on the floppy. There is no reason why
they shouldn`t support vfat.

Marcus

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