1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 14.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 15.\" This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou. 16.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 17.\" derived from this software withough specific prior written permission 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 21.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 22.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 23.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 24.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 25.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 26.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 27.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 28.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" $Id: mount_msdos.8,v 1.2 1993/07/30 01:31:49 mycroft Exp $ 31.\" 32.Dd July 19, 1993 33.Dt MOUNT_MSDOS 8 34.Os NetBSD 0.9 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm mount_msdos 37.Nd mount an MS-DOS file system 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm mount_msdos 40.Op Fl F Ar fsoptions 41.Pa special 42.Pa node 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm mount_msdos 46command attaches the MS-DOS filesystem residing on 47the device 48.Pa special 49to the global filesystem namespace at the location 50indicated by 51.Pa node . 52This command is normally executed by 53.Xr mount 8 . 54at boot time. 55.Sh SEE ALSO 56.Xr mount 2 , 57.Xr unmount 2 , 58.Xr fstab 5 59.Sh CAVEATS 60The 61.Nm msdos 62filesystem is not known to work reliably with filesystems created by versions 63of MS-DOS later than version 3.3. 64.Pp 65The limitations on file names imposed by MS-DOS are strange, at best. 66For instance, they are 67limited to single-case, 8 character names with 3 character extensions. 68.Pp 69You should be able to mount an MS-DOS filesystem on a big-endian 70machine. This is probably not currently possible. 71.Sh HISTORY 72The 73.Nm mount_msdos 74utility first appeared in NetBSD 0.9. 75Its predecessor, the 76.Nm mount_pcfs 77utility appeared in NetBSD 0.8, and was abandoned in favor 78of the more aptly-named 79.Nm mount_msdos . 80