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<article lang="&language;" id="floppy">
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<title>Floppy</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>&Alexander.Neundorf; &Alexander.Neundorf.mail;</author>
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<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
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</authorgroup>
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</articleinfo>
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<para>
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The floppy ioslave gives you easy access to the floppy disk drives
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installed on your system.
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</para>
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<para>
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The drive letter becomes the first subdirectory
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in the floppy &URL;. Let's say there is a file <filename>logo.png</filename> on your floppy
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disk in drive A, then the &URL; will be <userinput><command>floppy:</command><replaceable>/a/logo.png</replaceable></userinput>
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</para>
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<para>
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If you want to access drive B, <userinput><command>floppy:/b</command></userinput> will do it.
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<command>floppy:/</command> is a shortcut for <command>floppy:/a</command>.
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</para>
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<note><para>Note that <command>floppy:/logo.png</command> means you have a disk drive
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named <filename>logo.png</filename>.</para></note>
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<para>
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To use it you need to have the mtools package
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installed, and the floppy ioslave supports everything the various mtools
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command line utilities support. You don't have to mount your floppy disks,
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simply enter <userinput>floppy:/</userinput> in any &kde; 3.x app and you will be able to
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read from and write to your floppy drive.</para>
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<para>
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It also works with USB sticks, ZIP and JAZ drives.
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You can use <command>floppy:/u</command> for the USB stick and <command>floppy:/z</command> for the zip drive, for example.
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To make this work, you might need to adjust your <filename>/etc/mtools</filename> file. See the manpage
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for documentation.
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</para>
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<para>The ioslave gives read and write access to the floppy drive, but not
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simultaneously. While you can read and write to the floppy during the same
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session, reading and writing have to happen one after the other, not at the same
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time.</para>
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<para>Author: Alexander Neundorf <email>neundorf@kde.org</email></para>
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</article>
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