The correct way to do this is to mount the floppy, something like:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
as root. If you don't understand what that line does try man
mount. After that you can copy the file with cp like any other
filesystem.
Alternatively, you can use mtools if you have it installed, see man
mtools and man mcopy, but you'll just do something like:
mcopy c:\<filename>.zip ~/
where <fileqname>.zip is the full dos name of the file.
After you copy it across, put it in a temp directory, and use unzip
<filename>.zip to unzip it.
cheers,
Martin
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, David Slater wrote:
> >From a REAL beginner to Linux,
>
> How do I read my DOS zipped file on the A: drive ?
>
> (Because I want to activate my TANDBERG Tape drive, and I am hoping
> a downloaded firmware upgrade-driver might do the trick).
>
> Regs, David.
>
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