# Floppy

The floppy ioslave gives you easy access to the floppy disk drives installed on your system.

The drive letter becomes the first subdirectory in the floppy &URL;. Let's say there is a file `logo.png` on your floppy disk in drive A, then the &URL; will be ``floppy:`/a/logo.png`

If you want to access drive B, ``floppy:/b`` will do it. `floppy:/` is a shortcut for `floppy:/a`.

Note that `floppy:/logo.png` means you have a disk drive named `logo.png`.

To use it you need to have the mtools package installed, and the floppy ioslave supports everything the various mtools command line utilities support. You don't have to mount your floppy disks, simply enter `floppy:/` in any &kde; 2.x app and you are able to read and write from your floppy drive.

According to the mtools documentation ZIP and JAZ drives are also supported, you could try `floppy:/z` and `floppy:/j` to access them. Due to missing hardware this is not tested.

Currently it is only possible to access one floppy drive exactly once at a moment, it is not possible to read and write at the same time on the same floppy.

Author: Alexander Neundorf neundorf@kde.org