report cards read-only on floppy

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

> Why would it be MSDOS or VFAT partition? I created all the files in linux.
>
> I added 'rw' to the floppy line in /etc/fstab and rebooted (I couldn't
> rember the command to get the system to re-read fstab). Still, the files
> are read-only. I tried my chmod -R 777 /mnt/floppy/ command again -
> didn't help. I tried running that same command as the superuser - again
> I get the read-only filesystem errors:
>

I use floppies all the time to transfer stuff between systems and have
never had permission issues.

I use mtools: mformat the floppy, then mcopy the files to the disk.

No fooling with mount or fstab at all.

Is there any option of recreating these files on disk using mcopy?

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