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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: A: Drive?!?!?
Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:44:58 GMT
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Stephane Raimbault <bsw827@freenet.mb.ca> wrote:

> I would like to copy a file from my floppy disk drive to the Hard Disk
> Drive.  I have yet found how to access the a: drive.  Could someone
> please help! Thanks.

No such thing like ``drive A:'' in a Unix system. :)

You probably want to use MS-DOS formatted floppies, do you?  In this
case, go and install the `mtools' package.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)