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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:17:05 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 26 Apr 97 at 10:45) Alaric B. Williams said:

> > Exactly! But for that we'd have a 'mount' command - after all, is it *so*
> > complicated to type 'mount -t vfat /dev/fd0' ?? 
> 
> Only if absolutely necessary. If we can possibly do without such a UNIXism,
> we should... it'll only cause problems. I have had a hard enough time
> convincing people that they shouldn't copy files by opening them, swapping
> disks, and closing them, let alone explaining that each floppy they use has
> to be mounted and demounted ("But I don't have to do that under MS-DOS...")
Sure you have to! What else is typing "a:"? It's a kind of mounting, isn't 
it? DOS kernel re-reads the drive to check what media has been put in.
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