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- From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: dos commands help wanted
- Message-ID: <9212221804.AA02294@invid.mwc.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:26:32 GMT
- References: <9212190049.AA12956@relay1.UU.NET>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- >
- > In article <10DEC199213385254@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- > batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Batchelor, Space Phys. Data Facil.
- > 301/286-2988) writes:
- > >In article <18285@mindlink.bc.ca>, Mark_Ward@mindlink.bc.ca (Mark Ward)
- > writes...
- > >>I need some help with the dos commands. I have just installed Coherent 4and
- > >>everything is working just fine. However when I use the doscp and other dos
- > >>commands I get the message " cannot open device c ". I have my hard drive
- > >>partioned so that primary dos partition is active and I use bootstrap to
- boot
- > >>coherent. I don't think I made any mistakes when installing. I also
- checked
- > >>out the file msdos and it contained the line c=\dev\at0a, so I assumed
- > >>everything was fine, but I still can't use the dos commands. Any help would
- > >>be greatly appreciated.
- > >
- > >I had a similar problem, and MWC tech. support told me that permissions had
- to
- > >be set to permit a regular user to access the DOS partition of the hard
- drive.
- > >Try running your commands as root and if they work, then you know it's a
- > >permissions problem. root then has to use chown or something to declare that
- > >you have permission to open C:
- >
- > This problem came up before. Remember that MWC sets the C drive to those
- > (restrictive) permissions for a reason: if you allow any user to have read
- > access, then they can read any file on your DOS partition. If you give any
- > user write access, then any user can delete all the files on your DOS
- > partition. Since you have the root password, you can always type:
- >
- > su root dosdir c:/tmp
- >
- > and type in the root password when prompted. This way, your system is still
- > secure. If you are going to be the only user on the system, or you can trust
- > all the users on your system, then setting the permissions to allow all users
- > to access the DOS partition is OK.
- >
- > In that case (you are sole user or all users are trusted), then you can use
- > chmod on that partition to change the permissions.
- >
- > Harry
- > --
- > hcp@csx.cciw.ca |This message released|It takes all kinds,
- > hcpiv@grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca |to the PUBLIC DOMAIN.|and to each his own.
- > ----------------------------------+---------------------|This thought in mind,
- > Stay away from the DOS side, Luke!|Un*x don't play that.|I walk alone.
- >
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- Please do not forget to uncomment the proper line in the msdos config file!
-
- Located in /etc/default the file msdos must be modified.
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