- mount_pcfs appeared in 386BSD

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- Edit history to note name change version & rewrite.
- Add authors section.
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.\" $NetBSD: mount_msdos.8,v 1.38 2016/01/30 10:13:02 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mount_msdos.8,v 1.39 2016/09/12 01:44:52 sevan Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 Christopher G. Demetriou
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
.\" <<Id: LICENSE,v 1.2 2000/06/14 15:57:33 cgd Exp>>
.\"
.Dd January 30, 2016
.Dd September 12, 2016
.Dt MOUNT_MSDOS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
command attaches the MS-DOS filesystem residing on
command attaches the MS-DOS file system residing on
the device
.Pa special
to the global filesystem namespace at the location
to the global file system namespace at the location
indicated by
.Pa node .
Both
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This forces
.Fl s .
.It Fl G
This option causes the filesystem to be interpreted as an Atari-Gemdos
filesystem.
The differences to the MS-DOS filesystem are minimal and
This option causes the file system to be interpreted as an Atari-Gemdos
file system.
The differences to the MS-DOS file system are minimal and
limited to the boot block.
This option also allows mounting X680x0's Human68k floppies.
This option enforces
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.Fl l
are given,
.Nm
searches the root directory of the filesystem to
searches the root directory of the file system to
be mounted for any existing Win'95 long filenames.
If the filesystem is not empty and no such entries are found,
If the file system is not empty and no such entries are found,
.Fl s
is the default.
Otherwise
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.Xr fstab 5 ,
.Xr mount 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
The predecessor to
.Nm
utility first appeared in
.Nx 0.9 .
Its predecessor, the
.Ic mount_pcfs
utility appeared in
.Nx 0.8 ,
and was abandoned in favor
of the more aptly-named
.Nm .
utility named
.Nm mount_pcfs
appeared in
.Bx 386 .
It was abandoned in favour of the more aptly-named
.Nm
in
.Nx 0.9
and rewritten entirely by
.Nx 1.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
Initial implimintation as
.Nm mount_pcfs
was written by
.An -nosplit
.An Paul Popelka Aq Mt paulp@uts.amdahl.com .
It was rewritten by
.An Christopher G. Demetriou Aq Mt cgd@NetBSD.org .
.Sh BUGS
Compressed partitions are not supported.
.Pp
The use of the
.Fl 9
flag could result in damaged filesystems,
flag could result in damaged file systems,
albeit the damage is in part taken care of by
procedures similar to the ones used in Win'95.