On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
> Moreover you seem to have an interesting definition of "most": for
> many of those ioctls, sysctl would be rather clumsy: FDRAWCMD,
> FDSETPRM, FDCLRPRM, FDDEFPRM, FDFMTBEG, FDFMTTRK, FDFMTEND, FDFLUSH,
> FDRESET, FDTWADDLE, FDEJECT. Or do you really mean that for reading a
Flush and format on write-protected floppy? *PRM and FDTWADDLE - why
not? That leaves FDRAWCMD, FDRESET and FDEJECT. Looks like controller
commands for me...
> Floppy formatting programs, programs that read/write non-PC disks (ya
> know, lots of people still use CP/M disks for exchanging data with
> their "legacy" hardware such as synthesizers, machine tools, glass
> cutting machines, etc.), floppy configuration tools, etc. Ok, so these
> programs might be used less frequently than other programs, but so are
> programs that use IDE specific ioctls, programs that use SCSI specific
> ioctls, etc.
OK, so fdutils and mtools should give a reasonable sample, right? I'm
talking about examples of use, not "everything that uses the thing".
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