copying files in linux

[wadada]

hi comerades,
i am highly grateful to all those who responded to the above subject. 
i have overcome the problem now and have been able to make copies of 
whatever unix files from one floppy to the other. of all the helps 
that i had, Mark's was the most effective, fast and most convenient. 
since copying of files is a daily routine for researchers, i have 
decided to post Mark's tutorial for the benefit of those who may need 
it someday. the routine Mark gave is shown below. when you want to 
copy files from 3.5 Floppy to another 3.5 floppy, replace fd0 by fd1.

thanks
eugene

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#It really depends on how the floppy is formatted and what kind of file
#system it contains, unless you do a straight binary copy. For that, try
#something like
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#   cp /dev/fd0 /tmp/FloppyImage
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#[change diskettes]
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#   cp /tmp/FloppyImage /dev/fd0
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#which should copy the entire floppy as a block stream. Be sure to check
#and see that it really worked okay, though: some systems have trouble with
#this kind of thing, it seems.
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#-- Mark
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