I have 'Linux COMPLETE 2nd Edition' and 'Red Hat Linux 9' books worth $98 plus tax and time. None-the-less I still can not find out how to view a text file on a floppy. The floppy is located in /dev/fd0 using Fedora Core 3. I think that I managed to copy a file to the floppy. Now I want to be able to view the file. I find Linux to be very annoying. None-the-less I want to learn how to use it starting with the basics. Buying another book is not going to happen. There is no more room around here. Would someone please tell me how to view the files on a floppy. Obviously this question belongs in this discussion group, Newbie section.

Not familiar with Fedora but on my Slackware system I need to mount the floppy drive first:
mount /dev/fd0
And then I can view the files existence:
cd /mnt/floppy && ls
If I want to view a files contents:
less file.txt
You will need to be root to mount the drive, unless you have changed this to be otherwise or maybe Fedora is different.
Hope that helps some, and sorry if I was wrong.

If you have a line like the following in your /etc/fstab file, just type mount /mnt/floppy, or mount /dev/fd0 - or whatever your device/mount point is set to. Then type ls -l /mnt/floppy

If you have mtools installed, just type mdir a: at the shell prompt (you may need to be root depending on your setup).

If it doesn't work please post what you did along with any errors that were returned.

If it just plain doesn't make sense - I apologise, tell me which bits are too vague

Yes I have a line in /etc/fstab like that. However, it was not easy trying to find out if I did.

Problem Solved. I had a lengthy explanation of how but the system wiped out the message by determining I was not logged in, WRONG.

Problems: knowing when to mount and unmount a floppy drive, using double quotes instead of backslashes for the path of files and folders, needed to know how to copy a directory as well as a file (cp -ru /home/[username]/Documents/C\ Language\ Info/* /mnt/floppy).

WRONG?? Who, what??
We are, of course, happy to see that you solved your issue---even though you did arrive with a bit of a chip on your shoulder.....