| After inserting the floppy in the drive, the command "volcheck -v" checks for new media and mounts the floppy. Read and write to /floppy/floppy0 as you do with any other directory. The command "eject floppy" unmounts the floppy. Don't forget this command before physically ejecting the floppy. |
Floppys on Linux
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With a diskette in the drive,
"mdir A:" displays the content of the floppy,
"mformat A:" (re)formats the floppy,
"mcopy file A:" copies a file to the floppy,
"mcopy A:file ." copies a file from the floppy
to the current directory,
"mdel A:filename" deletes a file on the floppy. Alternatively, a floppy can be mounted on some directory "dir" with "mount /mnt/floppy dir" and read or write to that directory "dir" as usual. Before removing the disc, unmount it with "umount /mnt/floppy" Don't forget this command before physically ejecting the disc. Newer Linux distributions use automount to mount and unmount floppy discs automatically. |
CD burning under Linux
CD burning can be done with programs like "cdroast". The
task can be done much simpler however:
mkisofs -r -d -o cdimage.iso dircreates an image of the directory "dir". This is then burned onto the CD using cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=6,0 cdimage.isoThe number 6 has to be replaced by the SCSII number of your CD drive. You find out about attached SCSII devices with the command cdrecord -scanbusTo copy a CD , use a command like cdrecord -v dev=3,0 speed=8 -isosize /dev/hdcwhere /dev/hdc is the CD-Rom containing the read CD. |
Dos-Unix file conversion
Occasionionally you may need to use the dos2unix command to remove extra
carriage returns and change the end-of-file character to match Unix
conventions. This can be acchieved with
dos2unix -ascii originalfile convertedfileThe Unix command tr -d " " < originalfile > convertedfiledoes the same. See the dos2unix (and unix2dos) man pages for more info. |
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Simplicity, Clarity, Generality
B.W. Kernighan, R. Pike, in "The Practice of Programming".
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