Re: Padlocked drives and other frustrations

[Yuri de Groot]

I forgot to mention, the commands mdir and mcopy
do not require you to mount the floppy disk first.
In fact they probably don't work when the floppy is mounted.

Thus spake Yuri de Groot on this Mon, 13 Jan 2003 :
] For floppies these days I use mtools at the command line
] man mtools
]
] The mtools package contains the mdir and mcopy commands,
] which work as follows:
]
]  yuri@holly:~ > mdir a:
]   Volume in drive A has no label
]  Directory for A:/
]
]  001_st~1 png       759 09-11-2002   6:00  001_star_butterfly.png
]  gst200~1 sxc     14520 01-13-2003  10:34  GST.2002-2003.sxc
]  tax_aa~1 sdc    265728 01-13-2003  10:41  tax_aap.2001-2002.sdc
]          3 files             281 007 bytes
]                            1 176 064 bytes free
]
]  yuri@holly:~ > mcopy a:*.sdc ~/
]  yuri@holly:~ > ls *.sdc
]  tax_aap.2001-2002.sdc
]  yuri@holly:~ >
]
] (Yeah, I know "yuri@holly:~ >" is a weird prompt)

Yuri