Larry....don't forget the fact that the dos filesystem doesn't
maintain the Linux permissions of the files stored on it. 
You'll have to re-set the permissions after retrieving the
file from the dos formatted floppy.

Alan


Larry Marshall wrote:
> 
> >      Yeah, I was implying that.  I was also implying that dos is a
> >better file system to use on floppies, it's more stable, especially
> >over 1440k, and universally more readable by most systems.
> 
> Thanks for the response Tom.  If I ever use a floppy it'll be as a DOS
> floppy :-)
> 
> Cheers --- Larry

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