smb@cs.umd.edu (Steve M. Burinsky) (10/08/90)
I know that someone has gone to the trouble of writing MTOOLS, a package for reading/writing MS-DOS filesystems to the 3.5 inch floppy drive on SPARCstations. Recently, I was poking around the kernel source code and learned that all the code for MS-DOS file systems is apparently in place, just waiting for someone to turn on the PCFS option and rebuild the kernel. (Actually, mount(8) would also have to be rebuilt.) Have I been missing something? I don't ever remember hearing about MS-DOS filesystem support before. How come it isn't mentioned in the documentation? The mount(8) man page doesn't say a word about it. Before I go to the trouble of trying this, I'd like to know if it's already been done. Steve smb@tove.cs.umd.edu