Hello greetings and thanks to everyone who responded.
It appears that I am indeed fortunate. The man pages for mtools
do not explain that if your floppy is not SCSI then chmodding
/dev/fd0c to the mark of the beast and linking it to
/dev/fddrive means that no mount or umount is required.
I guess that both my users and I will be able to cope with the
curious dos-u-dont-like mtools commands.
I guess that If you have a SCSI then the mknod and ln only
have to be carried out once by root along with no doubt a
chmod and then mtools should function for users. But then
again I could be wrong, and often are.
The jury is still out on how to cope with CD's. Again top
marks go to Solaris and Linux although I am prepared to
change my mind If some kind soul out there can educate me.
We are considering using osh to provide this function, do
you have any comment? Is there a better way?
k.mcmanus_at_gre.ac.uk -
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~k.mcmanus
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School of Computing & Math Science ||
The University of Greenwich ||
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Received on Wed Jul 30 1997 - 15:43:22 NZST