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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 48308] Floppy/mtools button not working when floppy is mounted
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2002-10-27 12:44:46
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------- Additional Comments From carpdjih@sp.zrz.tu-berlin.de  2002-10-27 13:44 -------
Subject: Re:  Floppy/mtools button not working when floppy is mounted

On Sunday 27 October 2002 13:35, you wrote:

> mtools uses a dos-style command set, sometimes (I cannot say now
> when) you need to deal with normal unix-based commands...

Right, mdir, mcopy, mdel, etc.

> well, then an icon could be added to Konqueror itself pointing to
> floppy:/, like "A:" in Explorer under Windows...

Yes.

> anyway, why not using autofs? I just tried it under Slackware and
> works great... it can be configured so that accessing to
> /mnt/floppy automatically mounts (and then unmounts after "n"
> seconds) the device...
> it's much more unix-standard, so the floppy button in file/open
> could simply point to /mnt/floppy, and the same could be done
> with /mnt/cdrom (while actually nothing similar to mtools exists
> for cdroms)...

You mean Linux-standard or unix-standard? The problem is, that stuff like this 
is highly system/distribution dependent, so KDE can't generalize that 
/mnt/floppy is going to be automounted on every system.

floppy:/ is working everywhere tho.

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer
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