Funny floppy problems
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jbayer at ispi.UUCP
Sat Nov 5 11:35:49 AEST 1988
In article <3700007 at eecs.nwu.edu>, skrenta at eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) writes:
> Are you reading the floppy under Dos or Xenix? If you simply "dir"
> a diskette under DOS, it shouldn't touch it at all. If you're using
> the Xenix "mount" command, however, I believe xenix writes stuff to the
> floppy. You can test this out by write-protecting your disk--I don't
> think you'll be able to mount it. In any case, if you've got a write
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Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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