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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 20:52:45 -0400
From: Brian Freeman <bef126@psu.edu>
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Hello:

Using Windows 95, I copied a file off the packages collection from the
FreeBSD server.  I saved it to a floppy disk and now want to copy it to
FreeBSD to install it.  I booted up FreeBSD and tried this:
cp /dev/fd0 /home/myname
The copy command places a file called fd0 in my home dirrectory. I tried
to rename the file fd0 to the name of the file it was supposed to copy.
I tried to unzip it and nothing happened.  I'm not sure what it coppied.

My question is how do I copy just a single file off my floppy disk to my
home dirrectory in FreeBSD or maybee can this be done?  I tried
specifying the file name with the copy command but I just got the error
message "file or directory does not exist"  Can I even get a dirrectory
listing from my floppy drive?  I tried:
ls /dev/fd0
but nothing happened.

Your help would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks,
Brian
bef126@psu.edu