On Saturday 27 October 2001 15:59, you wrote:
> No need to mount or unmount anything -- type "mdir a:"
>
> mtools comes installed by default on most distros.
>
> Ed.
Including, as I can now attest, Mandrake 8.0 and it works just fine with
kernel 2.4.12 :-)
[bill@a bill]$ mdir a:
Volume in drive A has no label
Volume Serial Number is 1112-15D8
Directory for A:/
DSET2 BAS 438 03-26-2001 21:09
DSET3 BAS 2052 04-10-2000 11:14
2 files 2 490 bytes
1 454 592 bytes free
Reading "info Mtools" now. Boogers! Purt' near the whole bunch of useful
dos commands are supported!
woo hoo !...
mcd a:
mdir (as above listing)
ls (listing of my Linux home dir!)
Ed ... next time I am in your area I wanna buy you a drink ... [at a donut
shop, of course! :-) ]
A long time ago I tried to add those commands to another distro ... an
early RH, I think ... and failed miserably. Until you mentioned it, I had
forgotten they even existed. Neat stuff.
The essential truth of Linux is that "it" can be done ... whatever
computer task "it" happens to be. The key is choosing the right tool to
use.
Bill
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