[UCLA-LUG] HEEELLLPPPP

[dannys@csua.ucla.edu]

"Todd A. Lyons" <cannonball@usinter.net> wrote:
>I think he wants to be able to remove and insert floppy disks at will
>and not be forced to remount it everytime, similar to the way that
>Windows detects when a new floppy disk is inserted and simply reads in
>the new directory/file information.  I don't think there is a method to
>do this at the command line.  Maybe in a GUI environment though.

For DOS based floppies, ues mtools.  The commands mcopy, mdel, mdir,
etc... are the equivalent to the DOS commands copy, del, dir, etc.

so, eg: mcopy /foo/bar a: