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All of the Linux workstations have floppy drives that can read MS-DOS format floppy disks. The following commands will allow you to access the floppy drives:
dos2unix convert a MS-DOS ASCII file to UNIX ASCII format unix2dos convert a UNIX ASCII file to MS-DOS ASCII format mattrib change attributes of a MS-DOS file mcd change MS-DOS directory mcopy copy MS-DOS files mdu display the amount of space occupied by a MS-DOS directory mdir list contents of MS-DOS directories mmd make a MS-DOS directory mdel remove a MS-DOS file mdel remove a MS-DOS directory mren rename a MS-DOS file mrd rename a MS-DOS directory
For more detailed information about using any of these commands, do man <command> on a workstation, where <command> would be one of these commands. In general, wherever you would normally put a drive letter in a MS-DOS command, you would use the same drive letter for one of these commands. For example, to copy a file named myfile to a floppy, you would type:
mcopy myfile a:/myfile
Note that UNIX uses forward slashes (/), not the backslashes (\) that MS-DOS uses.
