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$Id: mount_msdos.8,v 1.1 1993/07/20 00:19:09 cgd Exp $
.Dd July 19, 1993 .Dt MOUNT_MSDOS 8 .Os NetBSD 0.9 .Sh NAME .Nm mount_msdos .Nd mount an MS-DOS file system .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm mount_msdos .Op Fl F Ar fsoptions
a special
a node .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm mount_msdos command attaches the MS-DOS filesystem residing on the device
a special to the global filesystem namespace at the location indicated by
a node . This command is normally executed by .Xr mount 8 . at boot time. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mount 2 , .Xr unmount 2 , .Xr fstab 5 .Sh CAVEATS The .Nm msdos filesystem only works with MS-DOS version 3.3 filesystems.
p The limitations on file names imposed by MS-DOS are strange, at best. For instance, they are limited to single-case, 8 character names with 3 character extensions.
p You should be able to mount an MS-DOS filesystem on a big-endian machine. This is probably not currently possible. .Sh HISTORY The .Nm mount_msdos utility first appeared in NetBSD 0.9. Its predecessor, the .Nm mount_pcfs utility appeared in NetBSD 0.8, and was abandoned in favor of the more aptly-named .Nm mount_msdos .
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