On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Michael Havens wrote:

> 
> Something weird is happening. I am trying to copy some email to a floppy disk 
> but it won't. Here is what happens:
> 
> 	knoppix@bmike1:~$ cd '/home/knoppix/Mail/Maryna/cur'
> 	knoppix@bmike1:~/Mail/Maryna/cur$ cp * /mnt/floppy
> 	knoppix@bmike1:~/Mail/Maryna/cur$
>
> Looks good from your point of view, right? but the floppy was not accessed at 
> all. Upon further investegation I have discovered  that there is a file 
> /mnt/floppy on my harddrive and within this file resides all the messages I 
> wanted to go to the floppy.
> 
> 	knoppix@bmike1:/mnt/floppy$ ls
> 	1070092437.701.lqJF:2,RS  1070594725.594.vabU:2,S etc.....
> 	knoppix@bmike1:/mnt/floppy$ 
>

Doesn't look like the floppy was a mounted filesystem.  

# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Do stuff

# umount /mnt/floppy

Alternatively, if it's installed you could have tried mcopy. No mounting 
necessary.

# mcopy some_file a:/
 
> I would have liked to do this via the floppy icon on the desktop but when I 
> tried it the response I got was:
> 
> 	Could not write to /mnt/floppy/<file>
> 
> Any ideas as to what I should do?
> Something that may help in figuring out what to do is that after a koffice 
> application is loaded if I clik the floppy icon it accesses the disk 
> properly.
> 
Sorry, can't speak to what koffice is doing internally.

TJ