From: Bill Miller (slix@svcs1.UUCP)
Date: 08/24/92


From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller)
Subject: Re: mount & head problems
Date: 24 Aug 1992 20:32:04 GMT


>Actually the mount -t msdos command works very well. The correct
>command is
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
> ^^^^^^^
>in my case.
 
As I said to Jim Winstead and others, it's probably broken because I
don't have 0.97.1 root disk, just 0.97.
 
>I'm new to unix, but isn't the ls etc. pipe doing exactly what you
>asked? I.E. printing the first 20 lines of a file (head -20) where
>file is (ls -al). In other words the first lines of the directory?
 
It does do exactly what I expect (in this case, the first 20 lines of
the directory) - up to the "broken pipe" message.