On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> Luke writes:
> >
> >
> > In the mtools directory there was this readme:
> > 8<--------------------
> > mtools - tools to read msdos floppies from unix pc
> >
> > Compiled with a couple of tweaks, but cannot read disks, even under dosemu.
> >
> > Al ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sun 11 Oct 1998 16:20
> > 8<--------------------
> >
> > I just deleted one exit(1) (line 101 of init.c); and mdir works fine.
> > The others seem to work too.
> > Where it said Can't read FAT or whatever was all crap.
> >
>
> Good news, but looking at the code I think we need to work out why the
> read() call the reads the FAT is not returning the correct value, rather
> than just inoring the error condition.
>
It doesn't work with elksemu either. Could it be something to do with an
older dos format?
>From elksemu, I think that with a valid dos disk,
fatbuf = 3314 buflen= 4608, and this seems constant.
Luke(Boo) Farrar.
