3B1 and MSDOS Disks

[Jim Rosenberg]

In article <187 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>What are the UNIX commands on the 7300 for reading from and writing to
>an MSDOS-formatted floppy disk?  (I know I can do it with 'ua', but
>....)  Thanks.
>

Pete:  Don't even *THINK* of using the stuff that comes from AT&T for
dealing with MSDOS floppies.  You want the public domain mtools package.
I believe it was written by Emmet Gray (fthood!egray) -- somebody should
have it archived somewhere.  It works nicely from the shell, and allows
wildcards, which as far as I know the ua tools don't.  mtools uses mread
to read DOS floppies and mwrite to write them.
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