Thanks for your help buddy. Now I know about mcopy
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<:-)~MIKE~(-:>
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 09:34 pm, Tom Jones said:
~ On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Michael Havens wrote:
~
~ >
~ > Something weird is happening. I am trying to copy some email to a floppy
disk ~ > but it won't. Here is what happens:
~ >
~ > knoppix@bmike1:~$ cd '/home/knoppix/Mail/Maryna/cur'
~ > knoppix@bmike1:~/Mail/Maryna/cur$ cp * /mnt/floppy
~ > knoppix@bmike1:~/Mail/Maryna/cur$
~ >
~ > Looks good from your point of view, right? but the floppy was not
accessed at ~ > all. Upon further investegation I have discovered that
there is a file ~ > /mnt/floppy on my harddrive and within this file resides
all the messages I ~ > wanted to go to the floppy.
~ >
~ > knoppix@bmike1:/mnt/floppy$ ls
~ > 1070092437.701.lqJF:2,RS 1070594725.594.vabU:2,S etc.....
~ > knoppix@bmike1:/mnt/floppy$
~ >
~
~ Doesn't look like the floppy was a mounted filesystem.
~
~ # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
~
~ Do stuff
~
~ # umount /mnt/floppy
~
~ Alternatively, if it's installed you could have tried mcopy. No mounting
~ necessary.
~
~ # mcopy some_file a:/
~
~ > I would have liked to do this via the floppy icon on the desktop but when
I ~ > tried it the response I got was:
~ >
~ > Could not write to /mnt/floppy/<file>
~ >
~ > Any ideas as to what I should do?
~ > Something that may help in figuring out what to do is that after a
koffice ~ > application is loaded if I clik the floppy icon it accesses the
disk ~ > properly.
~ >
~ Sorry, can't speak to what koffice is doing internally.
~
~ TJ
~
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