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RE: floppy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (service@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 17 15:36:26 1993
From: service@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: skiani@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU, dcns-cluster@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 15:36:14 EST
Hello Sepehr,
The floppy drive on ic3-462-6 is working properly.
The dosread command has a bug in that it will not
interpert the FAT table on factory preformatted diskettes.
This problem is acute on the VS3100 model 30 on which
this problem arose.
I'd suggest using the "mtools". Which are new dos tools
which can handle sub directories.
add consult
cd /mit/consult/
man mtools
mformat, mread, mwrite, etc...
This should take care of the problem.
Thank You
John Chase
Athena Hotline
