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- From: clark@gopher.Stanford.EDU (Clark Burdick)
- Subject: Re: using the floppy drive on a sparcstation?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.163551.5256@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
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- References: <1edm11INNoom@mozz.unh.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 16:35:51 GMT
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- In article <1edm11INNoom@mozz.unh.edu> sch@nymph.msel.unh.edu (Shane Hutchins aka Xenos) writes:
- >I'd like allow users to transfer files from the floppy drive on our
- >Sun4 SPARCstation IPCs to their account. (/dev/fd0)
- >
- >Unfortunately, it requires root permissions to mount the thing.
- >
- >Is there some freeware out there that will allow a user to mount /pcfs
- >and eject (ie use the damn floppy drive) without root access.
- >
- >Thanks for your help...
- >--
- > -Shane C Hutchins
- > sch@unh.edu
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-
- The program usermount is available from guardian.cs.psu.edu in the
- directory /pub/src for anonymous ftp. This program is very easy to install
- and allows users to mount floppy disks and cd-roms without root access.
-
- Hope this helps,
- Clark Burdick
-