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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