From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 21:33:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA14200 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:33:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA14195 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:33:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA18228; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:29:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604030529.WAA18228@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Copying files to and from a floppy To: moroney@gil.com.au (Phil Moroney) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:29:38 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3162B0E2.394E@www.gil.com.au> from "Phil Moroney" at Apr 3, 96 09:09:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.