Subject: Re: Anyone got mtools-2.0.7 compiled?
To: Mark Tamola <buckwild@u.washington.edu>
From: Adam Glass <glass@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/16/1994 14:32:02
> 
> Dear sirs,
> 
> Okay, I hope I don't get bombed for not asking a completely NetBSD 
> specific problem, but I'll try my luck...
> 
> I recently tried to compile mtools-2.0.7, and I have run into a problem.  
> I changed the obvious "long lseek()"'s to "off_t lseek()"'s, and 
> everything compiled great, except for a couple of "warning uses gets()" 
> and some other type mismatch in /usr/include/sys/fcntl.h and some global 
> variable not matching correctly (terribly sorry for the horrible summary 
> of warnings, since stupid me forgot to log the compile).  But anyway, the 
> compile completed, and I tried out "mdir".
> 
> When I type mdir "a:", I get "mdir: Cannot initialize 'A:'".  I know I 
> defined my devices in "devices.c" correctly.  Any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Mark Steven de Sagun Tamola
> buckwild@u.washington.edu
> 

Why would you want to use mtools when you can just mount the msdos
filesystem?

later
Adam Glass