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- From: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker)
- Subject: Re: Copying DOS files.
- In-Reply-To: tye@spillman.uucp's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 20: 53:49 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:09:16 GMT
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- >>>>> On Wed, 20 Jan 1993 20:53:49 GMT, tye@spillman.uucp (E. Tye McQueen) said:
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- etm> What we all really want is for IBM to provide us with some
- etm> *decent* DOS tools for AIX. Sun, SCO, and many others allow DOS
- etm> floppies to be mounted as Unix files so you can access the DOS
- etm> files with any Unix command including the expansion of wildcard
- etm> characters.
-
- You should get the Public Domain mtools package. Among other places,
- it's in
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- prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/mtools-2.0.7.tar.Z
-
- (Note: I do know the difference between GPL and PD, this stuff _is_ PD.)
-
- Bas de Bakker.
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