Bob Krasko wrote:
> hi everyone, hope i can make this question clear.
>
> I want to be able to take information from linux, save it to a floppy, and
> then take it to another persons house and print it from a win95 machine.
> (i do not have a quality printer)
>
> i have tried...for example... cat seyon.help >/dev/fd0
>
This is a raw write-no files, just the data.
> this saves the information i want to floppy.
>
> then i take the floppy and put it in a win 95 machine and get something to
> the effect that the floppy is not formatted.
>
> the question is ...How can i save the information from linux to a format
> readable by dos ? (and thus printable)
>
Put a DOS formatted disk, and mount it using
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Then copy the file to /mnt/floppy. Then unmount it using
umount /mnt/floppy.
You may wish to check the manpage for 'mount'.
> thanks,
