From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) Subject: Re: Need Help: Mtools Date: 22 Aug 1992 16:39:01 GMT
In article <1992Aug20.203910.7846@mcs.kent.edu> jhuang@Chaos.mcs.kent.edu (Jing Huang) writes:
> Hello netters. I just realized that my "mtools" are behaving funny.
>
> Specifically, when I used "mdir b:" the first time, it gave me the
>correct diretory list of the diskette. But then after I changed to another
>diskette, "mdir b:" gave me the old (the first) diretory list. In other words,
>"mdir b:" seemed to have a memory of only the first invocation. To get a file
>list of another diskette, I have to reboot Linux. That is crazy. "mdir c:"
>seems ok though.
>
> What should I do to correct this behavior?
>
>--
>Jing Huang | jhuang@Chaos.mcs.kent.edu
>Department of Physics
>Kent State University
>Kent, OH 44242
>
Change floppy drive, perhaps. I remember having same
problem when building the system with NEC 1.44 FD.
It was in dos, that I discovered it and it was the drive.
Anyway, my mtools works fine.
Rafal
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