Re: mounting a floppy disk

From: Joerg-Uwe Tessmer (joerg_at_agnld.uni-potsdam.de)
Date: 11/10/03 

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:24:51 +0100

Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> I have a Dec Alpha 600a which has a floppy drive. How can I get
> 'mount' a floppy disk that has been formatted on a PC under Windoze?
> What is the device file for the floppy ?
>
>

Depend from your OS-Version
----------------------------
TRU64 Version 5.n:
- use the "mtools" to copy files from/to the floppy drive,
   mount is not possible.
   i.a.: mcopy unix.fil a:\ #copy the unix file file.fil to
         the floppy drive

         mcopy a:\windo.fil . # copy the Windows file windo.fil
         to the Unix filesystem .

Hope this helps.

        Joerg-Uwe 

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