Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:29:38 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: moroney@gil.com.au (Phil Moroney) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying files to and from a floppy Message-ID: <199604030529.WAA18228@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3162B0E2.394E@www.gil.com.au> from "Phil Moroney" at Apr 3, 96 09:09:54 am
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> Having successfully installed FreeBSD and being new to > the UNIX enviornment, could you please tell me how I > can copy files to and from my floppy disks? Obviously > using "A:" or "B:" won't work. > > I think I have to use FTP for the transfers, but I don'r > know what command I have to use once I am at the ftp> prompt. Are they DOS or BSD formatted? The answer is you can mount them if they are either, and copy to the directory you mount them on. If they are DOS, there is also the "mtools" package, which gives you a "dir" and several other DOS-like utilities. man mount_msdos for details on the mount option. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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