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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Something for Solid ? Was: Application maintainerships
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2006-08-13 16:37:36
Message-ID: 200608131837.36883.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Tuesday 08 August 2006 23:51, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 22:22, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > Le mardi 8 août 2006 18:28, Alexander Neundorf a écrit :
> > > Do mtools work on these unices ? And can't they mount VFAT floppies ? I
> > > don't know.
> > > If mtools are really still required, I'll have a look at the
> > > floppy-ioslave again.
> >
> > Very good questions... Actually I assumed that *BSD (at least FreeBSD)
> > were able to mount VFAT volumes and floppies. Could we have more
> > information on this? I really find it weird that those systems still
> > can't handle vfat floppies natively...
>
> mount -t msdosfs
> mount -t vfat
>
> There's a couple of options to tweak autodetection of VFAT and the like,
> but it works. So I wouldn't worry about compatibility for FreeBSD
> (mount_msdosfs) or OpenBSD (mount_msdos) or NetBSD (mount_msdos).

Good, I am happy to hear that my information is outdated.

So we could ditch floppy: (and perhaps mac: in the same move, especially if 
the needed external tool is still unmaintained).

Have a nice day!

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