read dos from floppy in qnx 6

GENERAL Help
1

have been using a system running qnx4 for sometime but definatly not expert. upgrading to 6 and trying to get around. Is there a way to use dos filesystem in 6? in 4 you could read/write a dos formatted floppy using:

ls /dos/a
or
cp myfile to /dos/a/myfile.txt
etc.

also is there a command cheatsheet somewhere?

thanks, many more questions but need to start there

dc

2

How about:

mount -t dos /dev/fd0 /fd

3

thanks for the reply but that doesn’t seem to work.

I type the command and floppy drive lights but still can not access it

reading the users guide it talks about devb-* loading fs-dos.so which lets you mount the dos f/s and have tried to see if devb-* is running but when I type sin I get nothing back.

Not sure what I am doing wrong. Can you not run terminal with Photon running too?

4

this works:
mount -tdos /dev/fd0 /dosflop

then access using:
ls /dosflop

now where does it go to mount this at startup?

5

I’ve confirmed that this works as you say. Now, why is /dosflop special?

6

It’s not. Either /fd was already existing or something else was wrong.

7

if you (lawebster) wish to have the above “mount” or other comands executed at startup, you could include them as adiditional lines into the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
make shure it is executable, and do not use your WIN editor to edit this file.