On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:26:13AM -0600, David Yang wrote: > I'm trying to write a shell that emulates some DOS functionality and one > thing that would be cool would be to emulate the way DOS handles disk > reads and writes. If I mount the floppy drive as SYNCHRONOUS, then I > get the synchronous writes like in DOS, but I'm encountering an issue > where if I make a change on the disk (on another computer) without > umounting, then put it back in the linux/dos combo, it reads the cached > version instead of the new version. Is there an elegant solution for > this? Yes, it's called GNU mtools (mdir, mcopy, etc). Just integrate them into your shell wrapper scripts. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
