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russ loroville wrote:
> 
> alias a:='umount /mnt; mount /dev/fd0 /mnt; ls -al /mnt | more'
> Everytime you type "a:" you mount the floppy and get a readout.
> Is this too "dos-ish"?

Not at all.  You should be comfortable with your system.
Aliases are a good way of making things more comfortable.  
BTW, Slackware 7.1 contains a package that adds DOS-like 
commands for the floppy:  mdir, mcopy, mcd, mren, mmd, mrd, 
mdel, mdeltree, mformat, etc. (with no mounting or umounting). 

Cheers,
Steven