Using the floppy drive

volcheck

check to see if a floppy is in the drive

The commands below will work only after you run volcheck.

ls -l /floppy/floppy0/.

check the contents of the disk

df -k /floppy/floppy0

check free space on the floppy

cp file /floppy/floppy0/

copy a file to the floppy without conversion

eject floppy

unmount and eject eject the floppy from the drive

unix2dos -ascii file /floppy/floppy0/file

copy and convert an ascii file from unix home dir to floppy

dos2unix -ascii /floppy/floppy0/file file

copy and convert an ascii file from floppy to home dir

Once you have run volcheck, the floppy will be mounted on /floppy/floppy0, and normal unix commands such as cp, ls, and rm can be used to manipulate files on the floppy.

If you have a large file that won't fit on a floppy, you may want to try compressing it with gzip. An msdos version of gzip can be found in /src/msdos/.