Floppy/SuperDrive/Zip/CD

MS-DOS formatted floppy disks can be read on our Linux workstations using the mtools package, a set of commands which include mcopy, mcd, mdir, and mdel. These commands work much like the MS-DOS filesystem commands; mcopy a:/biblio.tgz biblio.tgz copies the file biblio.tgz from the ``A:'' floppy drive to your current directory. Note that ASCII-encoded files from any MSDOS machine have both a carriage return and a linefeed at the end of every line, instead of just a linefeed. mcopy will not remove (or add) this extra carriage return by default, which can confuse programs that deal with text files (such as TEX). If you are transferring purely text files, you should use the -t option to translate CR-LF to LF: mcopy -t a:/biblio.tex biblio.tex.

A Zip drive, if present, can be accessed with mtools as if it were the ``Z:'' drive.